Observations of sea surface salinity in the western Pacific fresh pool: Large-scale changes in 1992-1995

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue 3334, 1998, Pages 7523-7536

  Hénin, Christian ^a,d   Penhoat, Yves Du ^a,b   Ioualalen, Mansour ^a,c  

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

^b Groupe de Recherche de Geodesie Spatiale   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Groupement de Recherche en Geodesie Spatiale   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE;

(EQUATORIAL WEST); PACIFIC;

EID: 0032521969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jc01773     Document Type: Article

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