Equatorial upwelling in the central pacific estimated from moored velocity profilers

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 105-124

  Weisberg, Robert H ^a   Qiao, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; UPWELLING;

(CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033994316     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2000)030<0105:EUITCP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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