A seasonal intrusion of subtropical water in the Mozambique Channel

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Schouten, Mathijs W ^a,b   de Ruijter, Wilhelmus P M ^a   Ridderinkhof, Herman ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; WATER WAVES; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND EFFECTS;

MEAN SURFACE CHLOROPHYLL; SEASONAL INTRUSION; SUBTROPICAL WATER; WIND FORCING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GYRE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WIND FORCING;

INDIAN OCEAN; MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 27744469301     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023131     Document Type: Article

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