Seasonal variation of the North Atlantic Current

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C4, 2001, Pages 6835-6851

  Yaremchuk, Max I ^a   Nechaev, Dmitri A ^b   Thompson, Keith R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT;

EID: 0034941710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc900166     Document Type: Article

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