Estimates of winter currents on the Israeli continental shelf

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-102

  Kunitsa, D ^a   Rosentraub, Z ^b   Stiassnie, Miky ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Israel Oceanorg Limnological Res   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coastal currents; Continental shelf currents; Israeli coast; Israeli continental shelf; Wind induced current

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; WIND EFFECTS;

ALONGSOURCE CURRENTS; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENTS; WINTER CURRENTS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

COASTAL CURRENT; CONTINENTAL SHELF; LONGSHORE CURRENT; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

EID: 11444264325     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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