Buoyancy-forced downwelling in boundary currents

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2704-2721

  Spall, Michael A ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CURRENTS; CORIOLIS PARAMETERS; DOWN-WELLING; EKMAN NUMBERS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOWS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HORIZONTAL ADVECTIONS; HORIZONTAL VELOCITIES; ICE FORMATIONS; KELVIN WAVE PROPAGATION; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; MIXED LAYER TEMPERATURES; MIXED LAYERS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SIMPLE MODELS; SINKING RATES; SURFACE COOLING; VERTICAL MOTIONS; WEAK-MIXING;

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; GRAVITY WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COOLING;

BOUNDARY CURRENT; BOUNDARY LAYER; BUOYANCY FORCING; CIRCULATION MODELING; CORIOLIS FORCE; DOWNWELLING; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; KELVIN WAVE; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 57849132975     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3993.1     Document Type: Article

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