Cross-shore variation of wind-driven flows on the inner shelf in Long Bay, South Carolina, United States

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Gutierrez, Benjamin T ^a   Voulgaris, George ^a   Work, Paul A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FLOW PATTERNS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; WIND STRESS;

FLOW PATTERN; OCEANIC CURRENT; SHELF SEA; STRATIFICATION; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER COLUMN; WATER FLOW; WIND STRESS;

LONG BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646475524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC003121     Document Type: Article

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