Wind-driven interannual variability over the northeast Pacific Ocean

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2105-2121

  Cummins, Patrick F ^a   Lagerloef, Gary S E ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Altimeter data; Baroclinic Rossby waves; Ekman pumping; Interannual variability; Northeast Pacific; Sea surface height; Wind forcing

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; DATA REDUCTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; DAMPING; MECHANICAL WAVES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURFACE WATERS;

EKMAN PUMPING; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MARKOV MODELS; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT (SSH); ALTIMETER DATA; NORTHEAST PACIFIC; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; WIND FORCING;

WIND; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EKMAN PUMPING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); WORLD;

EID: 85071015683     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2004.08.004     Document Type: Article

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