Thermohaline finestructure observed near the northern Philippine coast

Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1033-1044

  Wang, Fan ^a   Li, Yuanlong ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

double diffusion; Kuroshio; mesoscale eddy; thermohaline finestructure; thermohaline intrusions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869396783     PISSN: 02544059     EISSN: 19935005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00343-012-1246-0     Document Type: Article

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