The equatorial west pacific fresh pool at the end of the La Nina event in October/November 1996

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1243-1246

  Ioualalen, M ^a,b   Holfort, J ^a,b,c   Siedler, G ^b,d   Zenk, W ^b   Henin C ^a   Picaut, J ^a,e  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas   (Spain)

^e LEGOS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT; LA NINA; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEAN CURRENTS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

LA NINA PHENOMENON; BARRIER LAYERS; CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; EQUATORIAL WATER; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURES; TWO SECTION; WEST PACIFIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY; NICKEL;

EID: 0034352891     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL002396     Document Type: Article

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