Modeling ice shelf water overflow and bottom water formation in the southern Weddell Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Matsumura, Yoshimasa ^a   Hasumi, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; STREAM FLOW;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BOTTOM WATER; DENSE WATERS; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; DOWNSLOPE; EQUATION OF STATE; GRAVITY CURRENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE SHELF WATERS; MODEL DOMAINS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRODUCTION RATES; THERMOBARICITY; WEDDELL SEA;

EQUATIONS OF STATE;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BOTTOM WATER; DENSE WATER; GRAVITY FIELD; ICE SHELF; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTFLOW; SUBMARINE RIDGE; WATER DEPTH;

SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 77958556825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005841     Document Type: Article

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