Seasonal and interannual variability of the North Equatorial Current, the Mindanao Current, and the Kuroshio along the Pacific western boundary

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 101, Issue C5, 1996, Pages 12315-12330

  Qiu, Bo ^a   Lukas, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENTS; VARIABILITY; WESTERN BOUNDARY; WIND FORCING;

PACIFIC, (WESTERN);

EID: 0001642255     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95JC03204     Document Type: Article

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