Observation of long first-mode baroclinic Rossby waves in the North Atlantic and their connection with wind forcing

• Main Author: Polito, Paulo Simionatto
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: DigitalCommons@URI 1997
• Subjects: Oceanography|Geophysics; Curl; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI9805246

Residual sea surface height anomaly fields are obtained over the North Atlantic Basin from TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter data. Evidence of westward propagating anomalies characterized as first-mode baroclinic Rossby waves is presented. The sea surface height signal is divided into two spectral bands, the...