Intrusion of the southwest monsoon current into the Bay of Bengal

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C5, 1999, Pages 11077-11085

  Vinayachandran, P N ^a   Masumoto, Yukio ^a,b   Mikawa, Tetsuya ^c   Yamagata, Toshio ^a,b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CURRENT; MONSOON; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHWEST MONSOON CURRENT;

EID: 0007880438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900035     Document Type: Article

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