Northeast storms ranked by wind stress and wave-generated bottom stress observed in Massachusetts Bay, 1990-2006

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 28, Issue 10-11, 2008, Pages 1231-1245

  Butman, Bradford ^a   Sherwood, Christopher R ^a   Dalyander, P Soupy ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Integrated Statistics   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom stress; Climatology; Gulf of Maine; Massachusetts Bay; Northeasters; Storms; Surface water waves; USA; Wind stress

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM STRESS; CLIMATOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEAFLOOR; STORM; SURFACE WATER; SURFACE WAVE; WATER WAVE; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MAINE; MASSACHUSETTS; MASSACHUSETTS BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44449090075     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2008.02.010     Document Type: Article

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