High salinity winter outflow from a mega inverse-estuary-the Great Australian Bight

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 371-380

  Petrusevics, P ^a   Bye, J A T ^b   Fahlbusch, V ^a   Hammat, J ^a   Tippins, D R ^a   van Wijk, E ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Great Australian Bight; Inverse estuary; Mass budgets; Winter density outflow

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; DISCHARGE; ENTRAINMENT; FLOW VELOCITY; MASS TRANSPORT; OUTFLOW; SALINITY; SEAFLOOR; SHELF BREAK; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 58749098747     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2008.10.003     Document Type: Article

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