Semiannual variation in the western tropical Pacific Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Qu, Tangdong ^a   Gan, Jianping ^b   Ishida, Akio ^c   Kashino, Yuji ^c   Tozuka, Tomoki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENTS; ALTIMETER DATUMS; CONVERGENCE ZONES; EKMAN PUMPING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; MINDANAO CURRENTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; ROSSBY WAVES; SEMIANNUAL VARIATIONS; SOUTH PACIFIC CONVERGENCE ZONES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEANS;

TROPICS;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; ROSSBY WAVE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 56449102798     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035058     Document Type: Article

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