Sea surface salinity observations with lagrangian drifters in the tropical North Atlantic during SPURS: Circulation, fluxes, and comparisons with remotely sensed salinity from aquarius

Oceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 96-105

  Centurioni, Luca R ^a   Hormann, Verena ^a   Chao, Yi ^b,c   Reverdin, Gilles ^d   Font, Jordi ^e   Lee, Dong Kyu ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 248 E Foothill Blvd   (United States)

^c Los Angeles   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^f Pusan National University   (South Korea)

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EID: 84925339614     PISSN: 10428275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2015.08     Document Type: Article

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