Equatorial pacific subsurface countercurrents: A model-data comparison in stream coordinates

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1252-1264

  Donohue, Kathleen A ^a   Firing, Eric ^a   Rowe, G Dail ^a   Ishida, Akio ^a   Mitsudera, Humio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; VORTEX FLOW;

VORTICITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COUNTERCURRENT; CURRENT VELOCITY; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY;

(EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036529810     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<1252:EPSCAM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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