Transport of South Atlantic water through the passages south of Guadeloupe and across 16°N, 2000-2004

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2234-2249

  Rhein, Monika ^a   Kirchner, Kerstin ^a   Mertens, Christian ^a   Steinfeldt, Reiner ^a   Walter, Maren ^a   Fleischmann Wischnath, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Ocean circulation; Water mass spreading; Western Atlantic; Western tropical Atlantic

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; OCEAN CURRENTS; SAILING VESSELS;

CARIBBEAN; OCEAN CIRCULATION; WATER MASS SPREADING; WESTERN ATLANTIC; WESTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

MIXING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); CARIBBEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 27744564574     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2005.08.003     Document Type: Article

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