Intense diurnal surface currents in the Bay of La Paz, Mexico

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 608-619

  Zaytsev, Oleg ^a   Rabinovich, Alexander B ^b,c   Thomson, Richard E ^b   Silverberg, Norman ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bay of La Paz; Diurnal currents; Gulf of California; Radiational tides; Seabreeze; Tidal currents

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BAROTROPIC TIDE; DIURNAL VARIATION; ELLIPSE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; KINETIC ENERGY; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; SURFACE AREA; TIDAL CURRENT; TIDAL POWER; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER COLUMN; WATER DEPTH;

BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; LA PAZ BAY; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77950297016     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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