Modelling the impact of Black Sea Water inflow on the North Aegean Sea hydrodynamics

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 585-596

  Tzali, Margarita ^a   Sofianos, Sarantis ^a   Mantziafou, Anneta ^a   Skliris, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Black Sea Water; North aegean; Numerical modelling; Ocean circulation

Indexed keywords

3D NUMERICAL MODEL; ANNUAL VOLUMES; ATMOSPHERIC COOLING; BLACK SEA; DARDANELLES; DENSITY GRADIENTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; INFLOW RATE; LOW SALINITY; MESOSCALE CIRCULATION; NORTH AEGEAN SEA; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; OCEAN CIRCULATION; SEASONAL CYCLE; THERMOHALINE; UPPER LAYER; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER CHARACTERISTICS; WATER COLUMNS; WATER MASS;

OCEANOGRAPHY; REINFORCEMENT; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COOLING; HYDRODYNAMICS; INFLOW; INSULATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE MOTION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEAWATER; STRAIT; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VERTICAL MIXING; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER COLUMN; WATER FLOW; WATER MASS;

AEGEAN SEA; BLACK SEA; CANAKKALE [TURKEY]; DARDANELLES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TURKEY;

EID: 77954818332     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-010-0277-3     Document Type: Article

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