Topographic control of rotating deep water flow through the combination of a sill and a horizontal constriction

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 105, Issue C12, 2000, Pages 28663-28669

  Laanearu, Janek ^a   Lundberg, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; DEEP WATER; FLOW MODELING; ROTATING FLOW; SILL; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

BALTIC SEA; BORNHOLM CHANNEL;

EID: 0034481390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc900136     Document Type: Article

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