Global prediction of abyssal hill roughness statistics for use in ocean models from digital maps of paleo-spreading rate, paleo-ridge orientation, and sediment thickness

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 36-43

  Goff, John A ^a   Arbic, Brian K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abyssal hills; Ocean modeling; Prediction; Roughness

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL MAP; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; INTERNAL WAVES; LOW FREQUENCY; MASS WASTING; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; MORPHOLOGICAL INDICATOR; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN FLOOR; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN MODELING; RIDGE ORIENTATIONS; ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; ROUGHNESS STATISTICS; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SPREADING RATE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TECTONIC PROCESS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABYSSAL HILL; BED ROUGHNESS; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DIGITAL MAP; MASS WASTING; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PREDICTION; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 73749086283     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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