Argo observations of barrier layer in the tropical Indian Ocean

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 642-654

  Agarwal, Neeraj ^a   Sharma, Rashmi ^b   Parekh, Anant ^c   Basu, Sujit ^b   Sarkar, Abhijit ^b   Agarwal, Vijay K ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b Indian Space Research Organization Space Application Centre   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Argo observations; Barrier layer; Tropical Indian Ocean

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; TROPICS;

ARGO OBSERVATIONS; BARRIER LAYER THICKNESS; BARRIER LAYERS; EASTERN EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; SEASONAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOUTHEASTERN ARABIAN SEAS; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 84863783903     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2012.05.021     Document Type: Article

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