Index and composites of the Kuroshio meander South of Japan

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 639-649

  Maximenko, Nikolai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bimodality; Data composite; Indices; Kuroshio; Large meander

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MEANDERING; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; NOAA SATELLITE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036821286     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022886121607     Document Type: Article

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