Tidal effect on the dense water discharge, Part 2: A numerical study

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 13-14, 2009, Pages 884-894

  Guan, Xiaorui ^a   Ou, Hsien Wang ^a   Chen, Dake ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b SIO   (China)

Author keywords

Dense water discharge; Gravity current; Numerical modelling; Tidal shear dispersion

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DENSE WATER DISCHARGE; DENSE WATERS; DENSITY ANOMALIES; DENSITY INTERFACE; DIABATIC; EKMAN FLOW; GRAVITY CURRENT; LAYER THICKNESS; MODEL RESULTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL PROCESS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; ROSS SEA; SHARP CONTRAST; SHEAR DISPERSION; SHELF BREAK; SLOPING BOTTOM; TIDAL EFFECTS; TIDAL SHEAR DISPERSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATION; GRAVITY WAVES;

STREAM FLOW;

ADVECTION; BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DENSITY; DISCHARGE; DISPERSION; EKMAN LAYER; GRAVITY FIELD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN TIDE; SHELF BREAK; WATER FLOW;

ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 67349098532     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.10.028     Document Type: Article

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