The volume transport of the Somali Current during the 1995 southwest monsoon

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 12-13, 2003, Pages 2077-2089

  Beal, Lisa M ^a   Chereskin, Teresa K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF WATER; HEAT FLUX; MASS TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

SATELLITE IMAGES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CURRENT VELOCITY; MONSOON; THERMOCLINE; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

INDIAN OCEAN; SOMALI SHELF;

SOMALIA;

EID: 0038010361     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(03)00046-8     Document Type: Article

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