Characteristics and formation of Eastern South Pacific Intermediate Water

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Schneider, Wolfgang ^a   Fuenzalida, Rosalino ^a   Rodríguez Rubio, Efraín ^a   Garcés Vargas, José ^a   Bravo, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; WATER; WIND;

GYRE CIRCULATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

BOUNDARY CURRENT; INTERMEDIATE WATER; SALINITY; WATER MASS;

(SOUTHEAST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0042913067     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017086     Document Type: Article

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