Effect of stratification on tidal circulation over the Scotian Shelf and Gulf of St. Lawrence: A numerical study using a three-dimensional shelf circulation model

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 809-825

  Ohashi, Kyoko ^a   Sheng, Jinyu ^a   Thompson, Keith R ^a   Hannah, Charles G ^b   Ritchie, Harold ^a,c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gulf of St. Lawrence; Scotian Shelf; Shelf circulation; Stratification; Tidal circulation

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC PRESSURE; BOTTOM STRESS; DEEP WATER; MODEL RESULTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OPEN BOUNDARIES; SCOTIAN SHELF; SEA SURFACE ELEVATION; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHELF BREAK; SHELF CIRCULATION; TIDAL CIRCULATION; TIDAL FORCING; VERTICAL MIXING;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; EXPERIMENTS; MIXING; PACKED BEDS; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHELF WAVE; STRATIFICATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIDAL CURRENT; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE; SCOTIA SHELF;

EID: 71249105734     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-009-0212-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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