Seasonal differences in wind-driven across-shelf forcing and response relationships in the shelf surface layer of the central Mid-Atlantic Bight

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Dzwonkowski, Brian ^a   Kohut, Josh T ^b,c   Yan, Xiao Hai ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES;

COASTAL SEA LEVEL; CONDITIONAL SAMPLING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CURRENT FLOWS; MID-ATLANTIC BIGHTS; OFFSHORE FLOWS; PHASE ANGLES; R VALUE; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SURFACE CURRENT; SURFACE LAYERS; TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; VECTOR CORRELATIONS;

WIND STRESS;

FLOW PATTERN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHELF DYNAMICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MIDDLE ATLANTIC BIGHT;

EID: 73949092134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC004888.     Document Type: Article

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