Dynamics of the Pacific Subsurface Countercurrents

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2379-2404

  McCreary Jr , Julian P ^a   Lu, Peng ^a   Yu, Zoujun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; OCEAN CURRENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

OCEANIC DENSITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOUNDARY CURRENT; COUNTERCURRENT; MODEL; OCEANIC FRONT;

(TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036672612     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<2379:DOTPSC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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