Seasonal circulation in the South Indian Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2773-2776

  Ffield, Amy ^a   Toole, John ^b   Wilson, Doug ^c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; WIND; GEODETIC SATELLITES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ANTICYCLONIC GYRE; SUBTROPICAL GYRE;

OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CIRCULATION; GYRES; SEASONAL CHANGES;

INDIAN OCEAN, (SOUTH);

ANTI-CYCLONIC GYRE; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; POSEIDON ALTIMETER DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WIND DRIVEN GYRES; WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT;

EID: 0031277961     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01253     Document Type: Article

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