On the East Australian Current: Variability, encroachment, and upwelling

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Roughan, Moninya ^a   Middleton, Jason H ^b  

^a INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Current driven upwelling; Smoky cape; Western boundary current

Indexed keywords

SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UPWELLING; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 4744358532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JC001833     Document Type: Article

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