Significance of the vertical profile of the Indonesian Throughflow transport to the Indian Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Song, Qian ^a   Gordon, Arnold L ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

CLIMATE MODELS; INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW (ITF) TRANSPORT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOCLINE; THROUGHFLOW;

INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 7044235824     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020360     Document Type: Article

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