A climatology of the circulation and water mass distribution near the

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1488-1505

  Coast, Philippine ^a   Qu, Tangdong ^b,c   Mitsudera, Humio ^c   Yamagata, Toshio ^d  

^a Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER MASS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 0342615055     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1999)029<1488:acotca>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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