Why much of the Atlantic circulation enters the Caribbean Sea and very little of the Pacific circulation enters the Sea of Japan

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-67

  Nof, Doron ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; MARGINAL SEA; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SVERDRUP TRANSPORT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 0034100507     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(99)00050-6     Document Type: Review

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