Local mixed layer response to wind and buoyancy forcing in the western equatorial Pacific

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C1, 1999, Pages 1301-1323

  Zhang, Kate Q ^a   Rothstein, Lewis M ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CIRCULATION MODELING; MIXED LAYER; TOGA-COARE;

(EQUATORIAL WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033556534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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