Flow and water property structures between the Bering Sea and Fiji in the summer of 1993

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 105, Issue C12, 2000, Pages 28595-28612

  Roden, Gunnar I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGRAPHY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE;

(WEST); BERING SEA; FIJI; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034475097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc000030     Document Type: Article

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