Overflow into the deep Caribbean: Effects of plume variability

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C11, 1999, Pages 25913-25935

  MacCready, Parker ^a   Johns, William E ^b   Rooth, Claes G ^b   Fratantoni, David M ^c   Watlington, Roy A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTFLOW; PLUME; SILL; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; GRAPPLER SILL; JUNGFERN SILL;

EID: 0033571843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900206     Document Type: Article

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