An extended velocity projection method for estimating the subsurface current and density structure for coastal plume regions: An application to the Chesapeake Bay outflow plume

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1303-1319

  Gangopadhyay, Avijit ^a   Shen, Colin Y ^b   Marmorino, George O ^b   Mied, Richard P ^b   Lindemann, Gloria J ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY; OCEANIC CURRENT; VELOCITY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 19444373181     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2005.03.002     Document Type: Article

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