Hydrography of the eastern Arabian Sea during summer monsoon 2002

Journal of Earth System Science

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 459-474

  Shankar, D ^a   Shenoi, S S C ^a   Nayak, R K ^a   Vinayachandran, P N ^b   Nampoothiri, G ^a   Almeida, A M ^a   Michael, G S ^a   Ramesh Kumar, M R ^a   Sundar, D ^a   Sreejith, O P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Barrier layer; Persian Gulf Water; Red Sea Water; Time series; Water masses

Indexed keywords

HYDROGRAPHY; MONSOON; SUMMER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER MASS;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 27744546423     PISSN: 02534126     EISSN: 02534126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02702023     Document Type: Article

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