Mean annual variation of transport of major currents in the tropical Pacific Ocean

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1105-1122

  Donguy, Jean Rene ^a   Meyers, Gary ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CURRENTS; GEOSTROPHIC TRANSPORT; NORTH EQUATORIAL COUNTERCURRENT; NORTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT; SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL);

EID: 0030430623     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0967-0637(96)00047-7     Document Type: Article

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