Modeling of bathymetry-locked residual eddies in well-mixed tidal channels with arbitrary depth variations

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1974-1993

  Li, Chunyan ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; TIDES; WIND;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; RESIDUAL EDDIES; TIDAL CHANNELS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ADVECTION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BATHYMETRY; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; COASTAL CIRCULATION; COASTAL CURRENT; EDDY; MODELING; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; TIDAL CHANNEL;

EID: 33750926148     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO2955.1     Document Type: Article

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