A series of middepth zonal flows in the Pacific driven by winds

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 161-176

  Nakano, Hideyuki ^a   Suginohara, Nobuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; INCLUSIONS; WIND;

GYRES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION; ZONAL FLOW;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036336164     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<0161:ASOMZF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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