Zonal displacement of the western equatorial Pacific "fresh pool"

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C1, 1998, Pages 1087-1098

  Delcroix, Thierry ^a   Picaut, Joël ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SALINITY; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC, (EQUATORIAL WEST);

EID: 0031816961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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