Seasonal-to-interannual water mass formation in the upper tropical Indian Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Schiller, A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diapycnal fluxes; Indian Ocean dipole mode; Seasonal to interseasonal variability; Tropical Indian Ocean; Water mass formation

Indexed keywords

FORMATION MECHANISM; TEMPORAL VARIATION; UPPER OCEAN; WATER MASS;

(TROPICAL); INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0042090406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jc001531     Document Type: Article

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