Velocity moments in alongshore bottom stress parameterizations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 105, Issue C4, 2000, Pages 8673-8686

  F̀eddersen, Falk ^a   Guza, R T ^a   Elgar, Steve ^b   Herbers, T H C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; BOTTOM STRESS; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 0033665269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc900022     Document Type: Article

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