Oxygen tongues and zonal currents in the equatorial Atlantic

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Brandt, Peter ^a   Hormann, Verena ^a   Bourlès, Bernard ^b   Fischer, Jürgen ^a   Schott, Friedrich A ^a   Stramma, Lothar ^a   Dengler, Marcus ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COASTAL ZONES; JETS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CURRENT VELOCITY; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; HYDROGRAPHY; JET FLOW; OCEANIC CURRENT; OXYGEN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 46849109508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004435     Document Type: Article

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