Baroclinic instability of frontal geostrophic currents over a slope

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 911-918

  Pavec, Marc ^a   Carton, Xavier ^a,b   Swaters, Gordon ^c  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b Centre Bretagne   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OSCILLATIONS; STEADY FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; FRONTAL GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; MEAN FLOW OSCILLATIONS; VORTEX STRETCHING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; OCEANIC CURRENT;

EID: 20444451839     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO2718.1     Document Type: Article

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