Mean and time-varying meridional transport of heat at the tropical/subtropical boundary of the North Pacific Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C5, 2001, Pages 8957-8970

  Roemmich, Dean ^a   Gilson, John ^a   Cornuelle, Bruce ^a   Weller, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EKMAN TRANSPORT; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

(NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034937720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc000150     Document Type: Article

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