Coastline direction, interannual flow, and the strong El Niño currents along Australia's nearly zonal southern coast

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2373-2381

  Li, Jianke ^a   Clarke, Allan J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; FLOW OF WATER; GAGES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TIDES;

INTERANNUAL FLOW; OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY EXPERIMENT (TOPEX); POSEIDON SEA LEVEL DATA; ROSSBY WAVE MECHANISMS;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

COASTAL CURRENT; EL NINO; TOPEX-POSEIDON; WATER EXCHANGE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); WORLD;

EID: 11844259987     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO2645.1     Document Type: Article

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