Barotropic tides on the southeast New England shelf: A view from a hybrid data assimilative modeling approach

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  He, Ruoying ^a   Wilkin, John L ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COASTAL ZONES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; TIDES;

BAROTROPIC TIDE; BATHYMETRY; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DATA ASSIMILATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TIDAL CURRENT; TIDAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NEW ENGLAND SHELF;

EID: 33845729339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC003254     Document Type: Article

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