Quasi-stationary North Equatorial Undercurrent jets across the tropical North Pacific Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2183-2187

  Qiu, Bo ^a   Rudnick, Daniel L ^b   Chen, Shuiming ^a   Kashino, Yuji ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ARGO T S profiles; subthermocline eastward jets; tropical North Pacific Ocean

Indexed keywords

ARGO T/S PROFILES; DENSITY SURFACES; EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; MINDANAO CURRENTS; NORTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; QUASI-STATIONARY; WESTERN BOUNDARY;

FLOWING WELLS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TROPICS;

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; VELOCITY; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; MINDANAO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84879954044     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50394     Document Type: Article

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