On the crossing of the equator by intermediate water masses in the western Atlantic ocean: Identification and pathways of Antarctic Intermediate Water and Upper Circumpolar Water

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C9, 1999, Pages 20911-20926

  Oudot, C ^a   Ternon, J F ^b   Andrie C ^c,f   Braga, E S ^d   Morin, P ^e  

^a IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^b Inst de Rech pour le Devmt   (French Guiana)

^c Lab d'Oceanogr Dynamique C   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WATER; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; INTERMEDIATE WATER MASS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION;

(WEST); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033567602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900123     Document Type: Article

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