South Equatorial Undercurrent in the western to central tropical Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Fischer, Jürgen ^a   Hormann, Verena ^a   Brandt, Peter ^a   Schott, Friedrich A ^a   Rabe, Benjamin ^b   Funk, Andreas ^a  

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

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CURRENT MEASUREMENTS; EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; INTERNAL RECIRCULATIONS; SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENTS; TRANSPORT REDUCTIONS; WATER MASS; WESTERN BOUNDARIES;

TROPICS;

RECIRCULATING SYSTEM; SHALLOW WATER; UNDERCURRENT; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 58849109804     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035753     Document Type: Article

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