Modelling the water mass exchange through navigational channels connecting adjacent coastal basins - Application to the Channel of Potidea (North Aegean Sea)

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 231-238

  Savvidis, Y G ^a   Koutitas, C G ^b   Krestenitis, Y N ^b  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Oceanography, general (numerical modelling); Oceanography, physical (currents, sea level variations)

Indexed keywords

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER MASS;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 16244387934     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-231-2005     Document Type: Article

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