The Oceanic Variability Spectrum and Transport Trends

Oceanic meridional transports evaluated over the width of the Pacific Ocean from altimetric observations become incoherent surprisingly rapidly with meridional separation. Even with 15 years of data, surface slopes show no significant coherence beyond 5◦ of latitude separation at any frequency. An...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wunsch, Carl Isaac
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64706
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6808-3664