An airborne expendable bathythermograph survey of the South China Sea, May 1995

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C10, 1998, Pages 21637-21652

  Chu, Peter C ^a   Fan, Chenwu ^a   Lozano, Carlos J ^b   Kerling, Jeffrey L ^c  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; SEMIENCLOSED SEA; TEMPERATURE; WARM POOL;

SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0032531393     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JC02096     Document Type: Article

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