Seasonal variability of upper-layer geostrophic transport in the tropical Indian Ocean during 1992-1996 along TOGA-I XBT tracklines

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1569-1582

  Murty, V S N ^a   Sarma, M S S ^a   Lambata, B P ^a   Gopalakrishna, V V ^a   Pednekar, S M ^a   Suryachandra Rao, A ^a   Luis, A J ^a   Kaka, A R ^a   Rao, L V G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Geostrophic transport; TOGA 1 XBT tracklines; Tropical Indian Ocean

Indexed keywords

GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; UPPER OCEAN; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0034072596     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(99)00115-6     Document Type: Article

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