Numerical experiments on the movement of a warm-core ring with the bottom slope of a western boundary

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C11, 2001, Pages 26851-26862

  Itoh, S ^a   Sugimoto, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; WARM WATER; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

GULF OF MEXICO; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035215308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc000789     Document Type: Article

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