Impacts of bottom corrugations on a dense Antarctic outflow: NW Ross Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Muench, R D ^a   Wahlin A K ^d   Ozgokmen T M ^b   Hallberg, R ^e   Padman, L ^c  

^a EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c Earth and Space Research   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELS; ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DENSE SHELF WATER; DENSE WATERS; LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; ROSS SEA; SLOPE FLOW;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; ENTRAINMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTFLOW; SEAFLOOR; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 72049102867     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041347     Document Type: Article

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