On the termination of the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Yu, Zuojun ^a   Maximenko, Nikolai ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Nonaka, Masami ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; WIND; GEOPHYSICS;

OCEAN MODEL; HAWAIIAN LEE COUNTERCURRENT; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL VISCOSITY; MEAN FLOW; MESOSCALE EDDY; NEW SATELLITES; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; EARTH SCIENCES;

EDDY; GYRE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SVERDRUP TRANSPORT; UPPER OCEAN;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0042200440     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016710     Document Type: Article

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