Columbia River plume patterns in summer 2004 as revealed by a hindcast coastal ocean circulation model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Liu, Yonggang ^a   MacCready, Parker ^a   Hickey, Barbara M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

BI-DIRECTIONAL; COASTAL OCEANS; COLUMBIA RIVER PLUMES; COLUMBIA RIVERS; DOWN-WELLING; HIGH FREQUENCIES; HINDCAST; HINDCASTS; SHELF CIRCULATIONS; WASHINGTON; WIND EVENTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COASTAL ZONE; DOWNWELLING; HINDCASTING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PLUME; RIVER PLUME; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SUMMER; UPWELLING;

COLUMBIA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON SHELF; PACIFIC OCEAN; WASHINGTON SHELF;

EID: 62749148269     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036447     Document Type: Article

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