West Florida shelf response to local wind forcing: April 1998

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C12, 2001, Pages 31239-31262

  Weisberg, Robert H ^a   Li, Zhenjiang ^a   Muller Karger, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL CIRCULATION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EKMAN LAYER; UPWELLING; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035722132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc000529     Document Type: Article

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