On the western boundary currents in the Philippine Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue 3334, 1998, Pages 7537-7548

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

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

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT; WATER MOTION; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 15144361325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jc00263     Document Type: Article

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