Far-reaching Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent driven by wind-stress curl induced by warm SST band along the current

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Sasaki, Hideharu ^a   Nonaka, Masami ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; WIND; WIND STRESS;

HAWAIIAN LEE COUNTERCURRENT (HLCC); INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COUNTERCURRENT; EDDY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND FIELD; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845674927     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026540     Document Type: Article

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