Advection and diffusion of Indonesian throughflow water within the Indian Ocean South Equatorial Current

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2573-2576

  Gordon, Arnold L ^a   Ma, Shubin ^a   Olson, Donald B ^b   Hacker, Peter ^c   Ffield, Amy ^a   Talley, Lynne D ^d   Wilson, Douglas ^e   Baringer, Molly ^e  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; MIXING; SURFACE WATERS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

ADVECTION AND DIFFUSIONS; INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW; INJECTION RATES; MIXING COEFFICIENT; NORTHERN INDIAN OCEANS; RECIRCULATION CELLS; SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENTS; WESTERN INDIAN OCEANS;

OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ADVECTION; INDIAN OCEAN SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT; ISOPYCNAL MIXING;

EQUATORIAL CIRCULATION; INDONESIAN THROUGH FLOW; OUTFLOW WATERS; SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT; TRANSPORT PROCESSES;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0031278163     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01061     Document Type: Article

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