River discharge into the Bay of Bengal in an inverse ocean model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Yaremchuk, Max ^a   Yu, Zuojun ^a   McCreary, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RIVERS; RUNOFF; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

INVERSE OCEAN MODEL; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER TRANSPORTS;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS);

MODELING; RIVER DISCHARGE; RUNOFF; SALINITY; SEAWATER;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 26844549387     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023750     Document Type: Article

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