Decadal current variations in the Southwestern Japan/East Sea

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1023-1033

  Teague, William J ^a   Jacobs, Gregg A ^a   Mitchell, Douglas A ^a   Wimbush, Mark ^b   Watts, D Randolph ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Currents; East Korean Warm Current (EKWC); Japan Sea; Marginal sea oceanography; Offshore branch; PIES; TOPEX; Ulleung Basin; Ulleung Warm Eddy

Indexed keywords

OCEANIC CURRENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 17744392545     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-005-0010-x     Document Type: Article

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