Southwest Pacific subtropical mode water: A climatology

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 298-315

  Holbrook, Neil J ^a   Maharaj, Angela M ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

DASPOT; El Ni o Southern Oscillation (ENSO); Southwest Pacific Ocean; Subtropical mode water; Thermostad; Water mass

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

SUBTROPICAL MODE WATER; THERMOSTAD; WATER MASS;

WATER ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CONVERGENCE; CROSS SECTION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MIXED LAYER; MODE WATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WATER MASS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); TASMAN SEA;

EID: 44749086658     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2007.01.015     Document Type: Article

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