Thermohaline stratification and instabilities at tidal mixing fronts: Results of an eddy resolving model for the German Bight

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 689-716

  Schrum, Corinna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDDY RESOLVING MODEL; SHELF DYNAMICS; STRATIFICATION; TIDAL MIXING; WIND FORCING;

NORTH SEA, GERMAN BIGHT;

EID: 0031128718     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(96)00051-9     Document Type: Article

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