Meddy-seamount interactions: Implications for the Mediterranean salt tongue

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2446-2461

  Wang, Guohui ^a   Dewar, William K ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SALINE WATER; VORTEX FLOW; WATER WAVES;

COHERENT VORTEX TRANSPORT; MEDDY SEAMOUNT INTERACTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

NUMERICAL MODEL; SALINE INTRUSION; SEAMOUNT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0141626475     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2003)033<2446:MIIFTM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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