Summer breakout of trapped bottom dense water from the northern Adriatic

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Vilibić, Ivica ^a   Paklar, Gordana Beg ^a   Žagar, Nedjeljka ^b   Mihanović, Hrvoje ^c   Supić, Nastjenjka ^d   Žagar, Mark ^e,f   Domijan, Nenad ^c   Pasarić, Miroslava ^g  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Croatia)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia   (Croatia)

^d RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^f Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia   (Slovenia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BOTTOM WATER; CONVERGENCE; CYCLONE; DENSE WATER; DOWNWELLING; GYRE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 58949092776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004535     Document Type: Article

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