Direct measurements of upper ocean currents and water properties across the tropical Pacific during the 1990s

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-61

  Johnson, Gregory C ^a   Sloyan, Bernadette M ^a,b   Kessler, William S ^a   McTaggart, Kristene E ^a  

^a NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ZONAL CURRENTS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CURRENT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; UPPER OCEAN; WATER TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036256947     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(02)00021-6     Document Type: Review

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