Variability of water properties, heat and salt fluxes in the Arabian Sea, between the onset and wane of the 1995 southwest monsoon

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 12-13, 2003, Pages 2049-2075

  Beal, Lisa M ^a,d   Chereskin, Teresa K ^a   Bryden, Harry L ^b   Ffield, Amy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MASS TRANSFER; SALINE WATER;

GEOSTROPHIC TRANSPORT;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

HEAT FLUX; MONSOON; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER MASS;

ARABIAN SEA;

EID: 0038348398     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(03)00045-6     Document Type: Article

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