Coastal wind-driven circulation in the vicinity of a bank. Part II: Modeling flow over the Heceta Bank complex on the Oregon coast

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1298-1316

  Whitney, Michael M ^a   Allen, J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BAROTROPIC; BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER; BOTTOM STRESS; COASTAL UPWELLING; COASTAL WINDS; DENSE WATERS; DENSITY FIELDS; DEPTH CHANGES; DOWN-WELLING; EKMAN PUMPING; FLOW BACK; FLOW DIRECTION; JET FLOW; MODEL RESULTS; MOMENTUM BALANCES; NEAR-BOTTOM DENSITY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OREGON COAST; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; RELATIVE VORTICITY; SHALLOWER WATER; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WHITNEY; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ADVECTION; LANDFORMS; VORTICITY; WIND; WIND STRESS;

JETS;

ADVECTION; AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOTTOM STRESS; CIRCULATION MODELING; COASTAL CIRCULATION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DOWNWELLING; EKMAN PUMPING; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; JET FLOW; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SYMMETRY; UPWELLING; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

HECETA BANK; OREGON SHELF; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 67949111163     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3967.1     Document Type: Article

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