Time-dependent island rule and its application to the time-varying North Hawaiian Ridge Current

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2671-2688

  Firing, Eric ^a   Qiu, Bo ^a   Miao, Weifeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT; ISLAND; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; NORTH HAWAIIAN RIDGE CURRENT; OAHU; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033366872     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1999)029<2671:TDIRAI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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