Coastal currents and eddies and their interaction with topography

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 237-253

  An, Byoung Woong ^a,b   McDonald, N Robb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coastal currents; Eddies; Topographic waves; Topography; Vorticity dynamics

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW OF WATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; VORTEX FLOW; WATER WAVES;

COASTAL CURRENTS; EDDIES; TOPOGRAPHIC WAVES; VORTICITY DYNAMICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; COASTAL CURRENT; MESOSCALE EDDY;

EID: 26844465920     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2005.04.002     Document Type: Article

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