Upper ocean heat and freshwater advection in the western Pacific Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue 3336, 1998, Pages 13023-13039

  Morris, Michele Y ^a,b,d   Roemmich, Dean H ^a,d   Meyers, Gary ^a,b   Weisberg, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; FRESHWATER; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; UPPER OCEAN;

(WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032525958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jc00195     Document Type: Article

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