Disentangling the upwelling mechanisms of the South Brazil Bight

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 29, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1525-1534

  Palma, Elbio D ^a,b   Matano, Ricardo P ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical modeling; Shelf break upwelling; South Brazil Bight

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SHELF BREAK; SLOPE; SYNERGISM; TOPOGRAPHY; UPWELLING; WATER MASS; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL CURRENT; SOUTH BRAZIL BIGHT;

EID: 67349143367     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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