On the role of bottom roughness in overflows

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 336-361

  Özgökmen, Tamay M ^a   Fischer, Paul F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DRAG COEFFICIENT; FLOW OF WATER; MASS TRANSFER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

OCEANIC THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; OVERFLOW DYNAMICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DRAG COEFFICIENT; ENTRAINMENT; ROUGHNESS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER COLUMN; WATER MASS;

EID: 38049063971     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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