Effect of salinity on estimating geostrophic transport of the Indonesian Throughflow along the IX1 XBT section

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 795-801

  Liu, Yun ^a   Feng, Ming ^b   Church, John ^b   Wang, Dongxiao ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geostrophic transport; Heat transport; Indonesian Throughflow; T S relationship; XBT data

Indexed keywords

GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; SALINITY; THROUGHFLOW;

INDONESIAN SEAS; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 24344499797     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-005-0086-3     Document Type: Article

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