Impacts of salinity on the eastern Indian Ocean during the termination of the fall Wyrtki Jet

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Masson, Sébastien ^a   Menkes, Christophe ^b   Delecluse, Pascale ^b   Boulanger, Jean Philippe ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Barrier layer; Equatorial dynamics; Salinity front; Wyrtki Jet

Indexed keywords

EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; OCEANIC FRONT; SALINITY; UPPER OCEAN;

(EAST); INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0142072671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc000833     Document Type: Article

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