Lagrangian flow at the foot of a shelfbreak front using a dye tracer injected into the bottom boundary layer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 2035-2038

  Houghton, Robert W ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DYES; FLOW OF WATER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER; DYE TRACER; LAGRANGIAN FLOWS; LAGRANGIAN VELOCITY; MODEL SIMULATION; RHODAMINE WT; SHELFBREAK FRONT; SMALL SCALE;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER; DYE TRACERS; LAGRANGIAN FLOW; SHELFBREAK FRONT;

CONVERGENCE; DYES; LAGRANGIAN CURRENT MEASUREMENT; SHELF EDGE FRONTS;

ATLANTIC, MIDDLE ATLANTIC BIGHT;

EID: 0031200957     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02000     Document Type: Article

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