Coherent sea level variability on the North Atlantic western boundary

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5676-5689

  Thompson, P R ^a,b   Mitchum, G T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

decadal; GECCO; North Atlantic; sea level

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BOUNDARY CURRENT; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; ZONAL FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84921472716     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC009999     Document Type: Article

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