Transport of Middle Atlantic Bight shelf water to the Gulf Stream near Cape Hatteras

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C13, 1998, Pages 30605-30621

  Churchill, James H ^a   Berger, Thomas J ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER EXCHANGE; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0002179214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jc01628     Document Type: Article

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