Low-frequency sea level variability in the southern Indian Ocean and its impacts on the oceanic meridional transports

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1302-1315

  Zhuang, Wei ^a   Feng, Ming ^b   Du, Yan ^a   Schiller, Andreas ^b   Wang, Dongxiao ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; OCEAN CURRENTS;

DECADAL VARIABILITY; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CELL; MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; REDUCED-GRAVITY MODEL; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SEA LEVEL VARIABILITY; SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENTS; SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN;

SEA LEVEL;

ANNUAL VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEAN BASIN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIMESCALE; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84878921380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20129     Document Type: Article

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