Particle tracking experiments on a model of the Okhotsk Sea: Toward oil spill simulation

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 103-114

  Ohshima, Kay I ^a   Simizu, Daisuke ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrested topographic wave; East Sakhalin Current; Particle tracking; Sea of Okhotsk; Spilled oil

Indexed keywords

OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OIL SPILL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TRACKING; WIND STRESS;

EAST SAKHALIN CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 38049072793     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-008-0008-2     Document Type: Article

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