Equatorial upwelling in the western Pacific warm pool

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C5, 2001, Pages 8989-9003

  Helber, Robert W ^a   Weisberg, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EKMAN TRANSPORT; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW VELOCITY; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; UPWELLING; WARM POOL;

(WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034940535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc000401     Document Type: Article

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