Wintertime buoyancy forcing, changing seawater properties, and two different circulation systems produced in the Adriatic

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Orlić, Mirko ^a   Dadić, Vlado ^b   Grbec, Branka ^b   Leder, Nenad ^c   Marki, Antun ^a   Matić, Frano ^b   Mihanović, Hrvoje ^c   Paklar, Gordana Beg ^b   Pasarić, Miroslava ^a   Pasarić, Zoran ^a   Vilibić, Ivica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Croatia)

^c Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COASTAL ZONES; FLOW OF WATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SALINE WATER; SEAWATER;

BUOYANCY FORCING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEAWATER; WINTER;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 34249784844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC003271     Document Type: Article

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