A curious relationship between the winds and currents at the western entrance of the Santa Barbara Channel

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Breaker, Laurence ^a   Gemmill, William H ^a   de Witt, P W ^b   Crosby, David S ^c  

^a National Centers for Environmental Prediction   (United States)

^b Fleet Numer Meteorol/Oceanogr C   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Currents; Front; Santa Barbara Channel; Vertical structure; Western entrance; Winds

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; SURFACE WIND;

CALIFORNIA; SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042324233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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