Observations and modeling of a pulsating density current

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Biton, E ^a   Silverman, J ^a   Gildor, Hezi ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE;

AND MODELING; DENSITY CURRENTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GLOBAL MODELING; GLOBAL OCEAN CIRCULATION; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INTRINSIC NONLINEARITY; NON LINEARITIES; NONHYDROSTATIC; RED-SEA; WARM WATERS; WATER-MASS DISTRIBUTIONS; WORLD OCEAN;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

DENSITY CURRENT; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT FLUX; MODELING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; WATER MASS;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 53749104628     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034123     Document Type: Article

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