High resolution kuroshio forecast system: Description and its applications

High Resolution Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere and Ocean

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 209-239

  Kagimoto, Takashi ^a   Miyazawa, Yasumasa ^a   Guo, Xinyu ^b   Kawajiri, Hideyuki ^a  

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

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 57549117851     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-49791-4_13     Document Type: Chapter

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