Equatorial subthermocline currents across the Pacific

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C10, 1998, Pages 21413-21423

  Firing, Eric ^a   Wijffels, Susan E ^b   Hacker, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; RECIRCULATING SYSTEM;

(EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032531404     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JC01944     Document Type: Article

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