Long-term acoustic measurement of temperature variations in the Pacific north equatorial current

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 101, Issue C7, 1996, Pages 16373-16380

  Kaneko, Arata ^a   Zheng, Hong ^a   Nakano, Iwao ^b   Yuan, Gang ^b   Fujimori, Hidetoshi ^b   Yoneyama, Kunio ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURVEYS; NORTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT; OCEAN CURRENTS; TEMPERATURE; VARIATIONS;

PACIFIC, (EQUATORIAL WEST);

EID: 0029845534     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96JC01053     Document Type: Article

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