Bay of Bengal currents during the northeast monsoon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2769-2772

  Hacker, Peter ^a,d   Firing, Eric ^a,d   Hummon, Julia ^a,d   Gordon, Arnold L ^b   Kindle, J C ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d JIMAR   (United States)

^e STENNIS SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bay of Bengal; Circulation modeling; Current; Monsoon; Oceanic circulation; Upper ocean

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SURFACE WATERS; WEATHER FORECASTING; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAY OF BENGAL CURRENTS; NORTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT; NORTHEAST MONSOON; SOUTH EQUATORIAL COUNTERCURRENT; SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT; COASTAL CURRENTS; EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENTS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; WATER PROPERTIES; WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT;

WIND; OCEAN CURRENTS;

CIRCULATION MODELING; CURRENT; MONSOON; UPPER OCEAN;

EID: 0032148229     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL52115     Document Type: Article

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