Interdecadal variations of the coastal Oyashio from the 1970s to the early 1990s

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Tatebe, Hiroaki ^a   Yasuda, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVE EFFECTS;

DECADAL PERIODS; LAYERED MODELS;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; COASTAL CURRENT; DECADAL VARIATION; ROSSBY WAVE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; OYASHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 22444448804     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022605     Document Type: Article

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