Upper ocean heat and salt balances in response to a westerly wind burst in the western equatorial Pacific during TOGA COARE

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C5, 1998, Pages 10289-10311

  Feng, Ming ^a,b   Hacker, Peter ^b   Lukas, Roger ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN COUPLING; HEAT BALANCE; SALTS; TOGA-COARE; WARM POOL;

(EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC;

EID: 15644365448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jc03286     Document Type: Article

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