Variability and linkages of New Guinea Coastal Undercurrent and Lower Equatorial Intermediate Current

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1780-1793

  Kawabe, Masake ^a   Kashino, Yuji ^b   Kuroda, Yoshifumi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLES; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; AUSTRAL WINTERS; EQUATORIAL INTERMEDIATE CURRENTS; NEW GUINEA COASTAL UNDERCURRENTS; POWER SPECTRAL; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; CURRENT VELOCITY; SUMMER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; UNDERCURRENT; WINTER;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; NEW GUINEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 65649140150     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3916.1     Document Type: Article

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