From the western boundary currents to the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent: Modeled pathways and water mass evolutions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Grenier, Mélanie ^a,b   Cravatte, Sophie ^a,b   Blanke, Bruno ^c   Menkes, Christophe ^d,e   Koch Larrouy, Ariane ^a,b   Durand, Fabien ^a,b,e   Melet, Angélique ^f   Jeandel, Catherine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b LEGOS   (France)

^c Centre Bretagne   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^f UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAPYCNAL MIXING; EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; GEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERANNUAL; LAGRANGIAN; MERIDIONAL DISTRIBUTION; MINDANAO CURRENTS; NEW GUINEA COASTAL UNDERCURRENT; WATER MASS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXING; UNDERCURRENT; WATER MASS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

MINDANAO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); VITIAZ TRENCH;

EID: 84855431701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007477     Document Type: Article

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