The intrusion depth of density currents flowing into stratified water bodies

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1935-1947

  Wells, Mathew ^a   Nadarajah, Parthiban ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-DENSITY; BUOYANCY FLUXES; CORIOLIS PARAMETER; DENSE CURRENTS; DENSITY CURRENTS; ENTRAINMENT RATIO; GEOSTROPHIC BALANCE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; REDUCED GRAVITY; SOURCE WATERS; STRATIFIED WATERS; WATER COLUMNS;

BUOYANCY; SURFACE WATERS;

EXPERIMENTS;

CORIOLIS FORCE; DENSITY CURRENT; ENTRAINMENT; STRATIFICATION; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 70349750280     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4022.1     Document Type: Article

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