A discussion of flow pathways in the Central and Eastern Equatorial Pacific

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1321-1339

  Brown, Jaclyn N ^a,b   Godfrey, J Stuart ^a   Schiller, Andreas ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; FLOW OF WATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENT; GLOBAL OCEAN MODEL; MERIDIONAL FLOW;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA SET; DOWNWELLING; EDDY; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; UNDERCURRENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 34250733432     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO3042.1     Document Type: Article

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