Coastal currents generated by outflow and vorticity and their interaction with topography

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 24, Issue 13-14, 2004, Pages 1531-1547

  An, Byoung Woong ^a   McDonald, N Robb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coastal currents; Outflows; Shelf topography; Topographic waves; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC MOTION; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; COASTAL CURRENT; OUTFLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 4344672941     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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