Mass, heat, and salt transport in the southeastern Pacific: A Circumpolar Current inverse model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C3, 1999, Pages 5191-5209

  Gille, Sarah T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SALINITY; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

(SOUTHEAST); ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0033559917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jc900106     Document Type: Article

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