A well-mixed warm water column in the central Bohai Sea in summer: Effects of tidal and surface wave mixing

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Lin, Xiaopei ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a,b   Chen, Xinping ^a   Xu, Lingling ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; MIXING; OCEANOGRAPHY; THERMAL EFFECTS; TIDES; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

BATHYMETRY; BOTTOM WATER; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SUMMER; SURFACE WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WARM WATER; WATER COLUMN; WAVE MODELING;

BOHAI SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 34548551516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JC003504     Document Type: Article

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