Upper equatorial Pacific Ocean current and salinity variability during the 1996-1998 El Niño-La Niña cycle

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 105, Issue C1, 2000, Pages 1037-1053

  Johnson, Gregory C ^a   McPhaden, Michael J ^a   Rowe, G Dail ^b   McTaggart, Kristene E ^a  

^a NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT; EL NINO; LA NINA; SALINITY;

(EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033669604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900280     Document Type: Review

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