Wind-driven variability of the subtropical North Pacific Ocean

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2089-2100

  Giglio, Donata ^a   Roemmich, Dean ^a   Gille, Sarah T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Interannual variability; Large scale motions; Ocean circulation

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; GEOSTROPHIC TRANSPORT; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LARGE-SCALE MOTIONS; LOCAL FORCING; MAJOR AXIS; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN TRANSPORTS; OCEANIC RESPONSE; REANALYSIS; REGION OF INTEREST; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; STATISTICAL CONFIDENCE; SUB-SURFACE OCEAN; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; TIME-SCALES; TRANSPORT FUNCTION; WIND FORCING;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

TROPICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARGO; DECADAL VARIATION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; OCEAN BASIN; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WIND FORCING; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION; ZONAL FLOW;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84872244853     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-029.1     Document Type: Article

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