The island wind-buoyancy connection

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 783-797

  De Boer, Agatha M ^a   Nof, Doron ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FORCING; HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; SALINITY; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; WIND;

BERING ISLAND; EURASIA; KAMCHATKA; KOMANDORSKI ISLANDS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 31144467424     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2005.00146.x     Document Type: Article

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