A description and quality assessment of the historical hydrographic data for the South Pacific Ocean

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 11 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1791-1815

  Gouretski, Victor V ^a,b   Jancke, K ^a  

^a WHP Special Analysis Centre   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL MARITIME AND HYDROGRAPHIC AGENCY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; HISTORICAL RECORD; HYDROGRAPHY; WOCE;

(SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033506787     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(1999)016<1791:adaqao>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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