Reconstructing the ocean's interior from surface data

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1611-1626

  Wang, Jinbo ^a   Flierl, Glenn R ^b   Lacasce, Joseph H ^c   Mcclean, Julie L ^d   Mahadevan, Amala ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GULF STREAM EXTENSIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; SATELLITE FIELDS; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUBSURFACE INFORMATION; SUBSURFACE VELOCITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

AMPLITUDE; BAROCLINIC MODE; BAROTROPIC MODE; BOTTOM PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PRESSURE FIELD; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF STREAM;

EID: 84883780407     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-0204.1     Document Type: Article

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