Circulation of the eastern North Atlantic and north-west European continental shelf - A hydrodynamic modelling study

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 1-12

  Hainbucher, Dagmar ^a   Backhaus, Jan O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Faroe Shetland Channel; Flow field simulation; Hydrography; North Atlantic; Overflow

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; CONTINENTAL SHELF; HYDRODYNAMICS;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033369447     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1999.00009.x     Document Type: Article

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