Beyond GOCE for the ocean circulation estimate: Synergetic use of altimetry, gravimetry, and in situ data provides new insight into geostrophic and Ekman currents

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 8918-8925

  Rio, M H ^a   Mulet, S ^a   Picot, N ^b  

^a CLS   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

Author keywords

altimetry; Argo floats; Ekman model; GOCE; ocean currents; surface drifters

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GEOID MODELS; MEAN CURRENTS; MEAN DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHIES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN SURFACE CURRENTS; SPATIAL SCALE; STRONG CURRENTS; SURFACE DRIFTER;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ALTIMETRY; DRIFTER; EKMAN TRANSPORT; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GOCE; GRAVIMETRY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84921843008     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061773     Document Type: Article

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