Recent advances in california current modeling: Decadal and interannual thermocline variations

California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports

Volumn 37, Issue , 1996, Pages 69-79

  Miller, Arthur J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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