Kinematics of the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent: An Eulerian and Lagrangian approach from GCM results

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1038-1053

  Blanke, Bruno ^a,b   Raynaud, Stéphane ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; EULERIAN; KINEMATICS; LAGRANGIAN;

PACIFIC, (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 0031450961     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1997)027<1038:KOTPEU>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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