Current variability at the Pacific entrance of the Indonesian Throughflow

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C5, 1999, Pages 11021-11035

  Kashino, Yuji ^a   Watanabe, Hidetoshi ^b   Herunadi, Bambang ^c   Aoyama, Michio ^d   Hartoyo, Djoko ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Sanyo Techno Marine Inc   (Japan)

^c Badan Pengkajian Dan Penerapan T   (Indonesia)

^d METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THROUGHFLOW; WATER EXCHANGE;

(EQUATORIAL WEST); INDONESIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033562241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900033     Document Type: Article

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