Lagrangian characteristics of continental shelf flows forced by periodic wind stress

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-16

  Kuebel Cervantes, B T ^a   Allen, J S ^a   Samelson, R M ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WIND FORCING;

EID: 1842682579     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-11-3-2004     Document Type: Article

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