Scales of interannual variability in the California Current system: Associated physical mechanisms and likely ecological impacts

California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports

Volumn 44, Issue , 2003, Pages 76-85

  Lluch Belda, Daniel ^a   Lluch Cota, Daniel B ^b   Lluch Cota, Salvador E ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

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