Anticyclonic eddies trapped on the continental shelf by topographic irregularities

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 102, Issue C3, 1997, Pages 5625-5639

  Yankovsky, Alexander E ^a   Chapman, David C ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; CURRENT RINGS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TRAPPED WAVES;

EID: 0030763830     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96JC03452     Document Type: Article

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