Thermohaline variability of the western tropical Pacific during 1995-1998: On the erosion/reconstitution of the fresh pool

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C4, 2001, Pages 6869-6879

  Ioualalen, Mansour ^a   Hénin, Christian ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SALINITY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; WIND FORCING;

(TROPICAL WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034932444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc900128     Document Type: Review

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