Energetic baroclinic super-tidal oscillations on the southeast Florida shelf

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Soloviev, Alexander V ^a   Luther, Mark E ^b   Weisberg, Robert H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATIONS; RESONANCE; TIDES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SUPER-TIDAL OSCILLATIONS;

GEOPHYSICS;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; HYDRODYNAMICS; SEICHE; TIDAL CURRENT; TIDAL CYCLE; VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLORIDA SHELF;

EID: 0042911364     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016603     Document Type: Article

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