Cross-shelf passage of coastal water transport at the South Atlantic Bight observed with MODIS Ocean Color/SST

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Li, Chunyan ^a   Nelson, James R ^a   Koziana, James V ^b  

^a SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross shelf transport; South Atlantic Bight; Transport passage

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOPHYSICS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; COLOR; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE WATERS;

SURFACE TEMPERATURES; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CROSS-SHELF TRANSPORT; NONDIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; POSITION AND ORIENTATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTH ATLANTIC; SUSPENDED SOLID CONCENTRATION; TRANSPORT PASSAGE;

COASTAL ZONES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

COASTAL WATER; OCEANIC FRONT; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTH ATLANTIC BIGHT;

EID: 0041699793     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016496     Document Type: Article

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