Currents in the Aleutian Basin and subarctic North Pacific near the dateline in summer 1993

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Chen, Shuiming ^a   Firing, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEAWATER; STREAM FLOW; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ANTICYCLONE; BASIN; CONDUCTIVITY; DEPTH; EDDY; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAWATER; STREAMFLOW; VELOCITY PROFILE;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN BASIN; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; AMCHITKA ISLAND; BERING SEA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646493319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC003064     Document Type: Article

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