The partition of regional sea level variability

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 137, Issue , 2015, Pages 173-195

  Forget, Gaël ^a   Ponte, Rui M ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENT ERRORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BOTTOM PRESSURES; BUOYANCY FORCING; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SEA LEVEL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL SMOOTHING; TOPOGRAPHIC CONTROL;

SEA LEVEL;

BOTTOM PRESSURE; BUOYANCY FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MESOSCALE EDDY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84983159921     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2015.06.002     Document Type: Article

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