Characteristics of interleaving in the western equatorial Pacific

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Richards, Kelvin ^a   Banks, Helene ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Hadley Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equatorial; Inertial; Instability; Interleaving; Mixing; P cific

Indexed keywords

MIXING; SALINITY; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; WATER MASS;

(EQUATORIAL WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037569584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc000971     Document Type: Article

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