Physical oceanography and water exchange in the Northern Kvark Strait

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 721-732

  Mattias Green, J A ^a,b   Liljebladh, Bengt ^a   Omstedt, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Barotropic blocking; Hydraulic controls; Northern Kvark; Strait flows; Taylor Goldstein equation; Two layer flow

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC MOTION; FRICTION; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; STRATIFICATION; WATER EXCHANGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BOTHNIAN BAY; BOTHNIAN SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GULF OF BOTHNIA; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORTHERN KVARK; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33646076212     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2006.01.012     Document Type: Article

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