Indonesian throughflow control of the eastern equatorial Pacific biogeochemistry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Gorgues, T ^a   Menkes, C ^b   Aumont, O ^c   Dandonneau, Y ^d   Madec, G ^e   Rodgers, K ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^c IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF WATER; OCEAN CURRENTS;

EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENT; EQUATORIAL UPWELLED WATER; INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CIRCULATION MODELING; IRON; THROUGHFLOW; UNDERCURRENT; UPWELLING; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 34249915546     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028210     Document Type: Article

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