Streamtube models of gravity currents in the ocean

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 44, Issue 9-10, 1997, Pages 1575-1610

  Emms, P W ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; FLOW MODELLING; OUTFLOW;

EID: 0030733817     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(97)00047-2     Document Type: Article

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