A comparison of the circulation patterns over the Southwestern Atlantic Shelf driven by different wind stress climatologies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 1-5

  Palma, Elbio D ^a,b   Matano, Ricardo P ^c   Piola, Alberto R ^d   Sitz, Lina E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Servicio de Hidrografia Naval   (Argentina)

Author keywords

4219 Oceanography: General: Continental shelf processes; 4255 Oceanography: General: Numerical modeling; 4512 Oceanography: Physical: Currents

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; JETS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); WIND; WIND STRESS;

CIRCULATION PATTERNS; ROBUST CIRCULATION; SHELF BREAK; SOUTHWESTERN ATLANTIC SHELF (SWAS);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 14644387577     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021068     Document Type: Article

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