Circulation on the western South Atlantic continental shelf 1. Numerical process studies on buoyancy

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Soares, I D ^a,b   Kourafalou, V ^c   Lee, T N ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b Associacao ATLANTIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; THERMAL PLUMES; TIDES;

BUOYANCY FORCING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; RIVER PLUME; TURBULENT MIXING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); BRAZIL; LA PLATA BASIN; PATOS LAGOON; RIO GRANDE DO SUL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34250767184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JC003618     Document Type: Article

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