Response of the West Florida Shelf circulation to climatological wind stress forcing

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C3, 1999, Pages 5301-5320

  Yang, Huijun ^a   Weisberg, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; SHELF DYNAMICS; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS;

FLORIDA SHELF; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0033559153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jc900101     Document Type: Article

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