Variations in the East Auckland Current from satellite radar altimeter data

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 175-191

  Laing, Andrew K ^a   Stanton, Basil R ^a   Challenor, Peter G ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic topography; East Auckland Current; ERS 1; Satellite altimetry; Topex Poseidon

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029758876     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: 11758805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.1996.9516706     Document Type: Article

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