Subantarctic Mode Water and Antarctic Intermediate Water in the South Indian Ocean based on profiling float data 2000-2004

Journal of Marine Research

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 789-812

  Wong, Annie P S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; DATA BUOY; MODE WATER; SALINITY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 25844518933     PISSN: 00222402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1357/0022240054663196     Document Type: Article

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