Existence and formation mechanism of the North Hawaiian Ridge Current

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 431-444

  Qiu, Bo ^a,b   Koh, Deborah A ^a   Lumpkin, Claude ^a   Flament, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CURRENTS; NORTH HAWAIIAN RIDGE CURRENT; SUBMARINE RIDGES;

PACIFIC, HAWAIIAN RIDGE;

EID: 0030750855     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1997)027<0431:EAFMOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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