Observations of the Ekman balance at 8°30′ N in the Arabian Sea during the 1995 southwest monsoon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2541-2544

  Chereskin, T K ^a   Wilson, W D ^b   Bryden, H L ^c   Ffield, A ^d   Morrison, J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; OCEANOGRAPHY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND STRESS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; DOPPLER EFFECT; SHIPS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; AGEOSTROPIC VELOCITY; EKMAN BALANCE; EKMAN TRANSPORT; PYCNOCLINE; SOUTHWEST MONSOON;

OCEAN CURRENTS; VELOCITY;

1995 SOUTHWEST MONSOON; CORIOLIS FORCE; EKMAN TRANSPORT; MONSOON; MONSOONS; WIND STRESS;

ARABIAN SEA;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; CLIMATOLOGICAL WINDS; EKMAN TRANSPORT; SHALLOW LAYERS; SOUTHWEST MONSOON; SURFACE LAYERS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT;

EID: 0031277539     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01057     Document Type: Article

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