Cold halocline in the northern California Current: An invasion of subarctic water

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Freeland, Howard J ^a   Gatien, Germaine ^a   Huyer, Adriana ^b   Smith, Robert L ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEAWATER;

SALINITY;

GEOPHYSICS;

COOLING; DOWNWELLING; HALOCLINE; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; UPPER OCEAN;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037998564     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016663     Document Type: Article

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