Salt and heat trends in the shelf waters of the southern Middle-Atlantic Bight

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 647-667

  Bignami, Francesco ^a   Hopkins, Tom Sawyer ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Middle Atlantic Bight; Salt and heat budgets; Shelf slope exchange

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; HEAT BUDGET; SALINITY; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC BIGHT;

EID: 0037392805     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(03)00023-2     Document Type: Article

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