Topocaustics

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 277-286

  Oey, L Y ^a   Chang, Y L ^a   Sun, Z B ^a   Lin, X H ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep currents; Gulf of Mexico; Internal waves; Topocaustics; Topographic Rossby waves

Indexed keywords

DEEP CURRENTS; GULF OF MEXICO; INTERNAL WAVES; TOPOCAUSTICS; TOPOGRAPHIC ROSSBY WAVES;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; INTERNAL WAVE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; SIGSBEE ESCARPMENT;

EID: 67649367371     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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