Manifestation of oceanic Rossby waves in long-term multiparametric satellite datasets

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 129, Issue , 2013, Pages 111-121

  O'Brien, Robert C ^a   Cipollini, Paolo ^b   Blundell, Jeffrey R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross spectral analysis; Ocean colour; Rossby waves; Satellite observations; SSH; SST

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; OCEAN-COLOUR; ROSSBY WAVE; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SSH; SST;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CHLOROPHYLL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ADVECTION; BAROCLINIC WAVE; CHLOROPHYLL; GLOBAL OCEAN; OCEAN COLOR; PLANETARY WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84870177800     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.10.024     Document Type: Article

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