Some comments on the barotropic flow through the Danish Straits and the division of the flow between the Belt Sea and the Öresund

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 456-464

  Mattsson, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODELS; SEA;

BAROTROPIC FLOW; OUTFLOW; STRAITS; WATER EXCHANGE;

BALTIC SEA; KATTEGAT;

EID: 0029805683     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v48i3.12071     Document Type: Article

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