On the mass and salt budgets for a region of the continental shelf in the southern Mid-Atlantic Bight

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C12, 2001, Pages 31263-31282

  Kim, Yoo Yin ^a   Weatherly, Georges L ^a   Pietrafesa, Leonard J ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; SALINITY; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC BIGHT;

EID: 0035722111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc000738     Document Type: Article

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