Monitoring a shelf edge current using bottom pressures or coastal sea-level data

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1265-1283

  McClimans, Thomas A ^a   Johannessen, Bjørn Olaf ^a   Jenserud, Trond ^b  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CURRENT; MONITORING; SEA LEVEL; SHELF BREAK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032809905     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(99)00022-9     Document Type: Article

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