Central equatorial Pacific zonal currents. I: The Sverdrup balance, nonlinearity and tropical instability waves. Annual mean dynamics

Journal of Marine Research

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 895-919

  Harrison, D E ^a,b   Romea, R D ^a   Hankin, S H ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR WAVE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SVERDRUP TRANSPORT; ZONAL FLOW;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035717499     PISSN: 00222402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1357/00222400160497706     Document Type: Article

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