Intense warm and saline upper ocean inflow in the southern Bay of Biscay in autumn-winter 2006-2007

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1014-1025

  Le Cann, Bernard ^a   Serpette, Alain ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SHOM   (France)

Author keywords

Bay of Biscay (Northeastern Atlantic); Climate and interannual variability; Eastern boundary currents; Hydrography; Slope and shelf currents; Wind forcing

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BOUNDARY CURRENT; HYDROGRAPHY; HYDROLOGY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OCEAN COLOR; SALINITY; SHELF DYNAMICS; SLOPE DYNAMICS; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 64049089382     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2008.11.015     Document Type: Article

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