Tidal flushing and eddy shedding in Mount Hope Bay and Narragansett Bay: An application of FVCOM

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Zhao, Liuzhi ^a   Chen, Changsheng ^a   Cowles, Geoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIDES; TSUNAMIS;

EDDY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLUSHING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN TIDE;

NARRAGANSETT BAY; NORTH AMERICA; RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845627743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC003135     Document Type: Article

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