Mass transport in the Bay of Biscay from an inverse box model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Fraile Nuez, Eugenio ^a   Plaza, Francisco ^b   Hernández Guerra, Alonso ^c   Vargas Yáñez, Manuel ^d   Lavín, Alicia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^b Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^d Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

DEEP WATER; DOWNWELLING; EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; EKMAN TRANSPORT; INTERMEDIATE WATER; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MASS TRANSPORT; THERMOCLINE; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY;

EID: 51449117901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004490     Document Type: Article

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