Southwest Pacific Ocean water-mass changes between 1968/69 and 1990/91

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 306-316

  Johnson, Gregory C ^a,c   Orsi, Alejandro H ^b  

^a NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGES; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; WATER MASSES;

PACIFIC, (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 0030742066     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<0306:SPOWMC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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