Why are rings regularly shed in the western equatorial Atlantic but not in the western Pacific?

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 417-451

  Nof, Doron ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; CURRENT RINGS;

(EQUATORIAL WEST); ATLANTIC; PACIFIC;

HESPERIS;

EID: 0030405026     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(97)00004-9     Document Type: Review

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