Subthermocline eddies in the western equatorial pacific as shown by an eddy-resolving OGCM

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1241-1253

  Chiang, Tzu Ling ^a,b   Qu, Tangdong ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANT TIME SCALE; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LONG-TERM OBSERVATIONS; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; PROPAGATION SPEED; SOURCE OF ENERGY; SOUTH PACIFIC OCEANS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CIRCULATION MODELING; EDDY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; THERMOCLINE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84881284633     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-0187.1     Document Type: Article

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