A subsurface warm-eddy off northern Baja California in July 2004

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Jerónimo, Gilberto ^a   Gómez Valdés, José ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; REMOTE SENSING; SALINE WATER; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

OCEAN EDDY; WATER MASS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GYRE; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; MESOSCALE EDDY; SALINITY; UNDERCURRENT; WATER MASS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34249893961     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028851     Document Type: Article

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