Seasonal flow reversals of intermediate waters in the canary current system east of the canary Islands

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1902-1909

  Machín, Francisco ^a   Pelegrí, Josep L ^b   Fraile Nuez, E ^c   Velez Belchi P ^c   Lopez Laatzen F ^c   Hernandez Guerra A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c Santa Cruz de Tenerife   (Spain)

Author keywords

Currents; Intermediate waters; Salinity; Seasonal variability

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; CANARY ISLANDS; CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA; CURRENT SYSTEM; CURRENTS; FLOW REVERSALS; INTENSE FLOW; INTERMEDIATE FLOW; INTERMEDIATE WATERS; KEY LOCATION; MEDITERRANEAN WATERS; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIABILITY;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

INTERMEDIATE WATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY BASIN; CANARY CURRENT; CANARY ISLANDS; SPAIN;

EID: 78049318509     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4320.1     Document Type: Article

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