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 a...

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Main Author: Wunsch, Carl (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 2011-06-29T16:41:19Z.
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