Nonlinear regimes of baroclinic boundary currents

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1400-1409

  Capet, Xavier J ^a   Carton, Xavier J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COASTAL ENGINEERING; FLOW OF WATER; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW VELOCITY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY (PV);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; BOUNDARY CURRENT; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY;

EID: 3242708738     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<1400:NROBBC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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