Characteristics of the convergence zone at the eastern edge of the Pacific warm pool

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Maes, Christophe ^a   Picaut, Joël ^a   Kuroda, Yoshifumi ^b   Ando, Kentaro ^b  

^a LEGOS   (France)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; SALINITY FRONT;

GEOPHYSICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SALINITY; WARM POOL;

EID: 4143106937     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019867     Document Type: Article

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