SST, thermohaline structure, and circulation in the southern gulf of California in june 2004 during the north american monsoon experiment

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Lavin M F ^a   Castro, Rubén ^b   Beier, Emilio ^a   GodInez, Victor M ^a,b   Amador, Alberto ^a   Guest, P ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DOPPLER EFFECT; FILAMENTS (LAMP); SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; CALIFORNIA CURRENT; COASTAL CURRENTS; CONDUCTIVITY TEMPERATURE DEPTHS; CROSS SECTION; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; HEAT INPUT; MESOSCALE STRUCTURE; NORTH AMERICAN MONSOON EXPERIMENTS; SATELLITE DATA; SPACE AND TIME; STRONG CURRENTS; SURFACE CURRENT; THERMAL FRONTS; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURES; UPPER LAYER;

HEAT FLUX;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ADVECTION; COASTAL CURRENT; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HEAT FLUX; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 66149188281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008jc004896     Document Type: Article

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