Baroclinic adjustment in Drake Passage driven by tropical Pacific forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Close, Sally E ^a,b   Naveira Garabato, Alberto C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

BAROCLINIC; BOUNDARY WAVES; DECADAL TIMESCALE; DRAKE PASSAGE; EASTERN SOUTH-PACIFIC; HIGH QUALITY; HYDROGRAPHIC MEASUREMENTS; INTERANNUAL; TIME-SCALES;

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BAROCLINIC MOTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TIME SERIES; TIMESCALE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84867507140     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053402     Document Type: Article

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