Seasonal salinity stratifications in the near-surface layer from Aquarius, Argo, and an ocean model: Focusing on the tropical Atlantic/Indian Oceans

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 6066-6077

  Moon, Jae Hong ^a   Song, Y Tony ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquarius; Argo; ocean circulation model; salinity stratification; sea surface salinity; seasonal cycle

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CIRCULATION MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; RUNOFF; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ARABIAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84924807938     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC009969     Document Type: Article

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