Circulation off Algeria inferred from the Mediprod-5 current meters

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 44, Issue 9-10, 1997, Pages 1467-1495

  Millot, Claude ^a   Benzohra, Mejdoub ^a   Taupier Letage, Isabelle ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; COAST; CURRENT; EDDY; MOORING;

CIRCULATION MODELLING; COASTAL ZONE; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; EDDY;

MEDITERANEAN SEA;

EID: 0030733816     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(97)00016-2     Document Type: Article

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