The salinity, heat, and buoyancy budgets of a coastal current in a marginal sea

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2562-2580

  Wahlin A K ^a   Johnson, H L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC FLUXES; BOUNDARY CURRENTS; BUOYANCY FORCING; CIRCULATION FLOW; COASTAL CURRENTS; COMPONENT DENSITY; DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; EKMAN TRANSPORT; LENGTH SCALE; LOCAL MAXIMUM; MARGINAL SEAS; NORDIC SEAS; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; SINGLE COMPONENTS; SUBPOLAR GYRES; VERTICAL PLANE; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER MASS; WIND FORCING;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUDGET CONTROL; BUOYANCY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

BOUNDARY CURRENT; BUOYANCY; BUOYANCY FORCING; COASTAL CURRENT; EKMAN TRANSPORT; HEAT BUDGET; MARGINAL SEA; MODELING; SALINITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 73949143623     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4090.1     Document Type: Article

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