Entrainment in shallow rotating gravity currents: A modeling study

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1819-1834

  Umlauf, Lars ^a   Arneborg, Lars ^b   Hofmeister, Richard ^a   Burchard, Hans ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Currents; Entrainment

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT FLUIDS; BALTIC SEA; BULK PARAMETERS; COMBINED EFFECT; CURRENTS; ENTRAINMENT; ENTRAINMENT PROCESS; GRAVITY CURRENTS; INTERFACIAL FLUIDS; KEY COMPONENT; MODELING STUDIES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ROTATING CHANNELS; SECONDARY CIRCULATION; SPATIAL SEPARATION; TRANSVERSE JET; VERTICAL MIXING;

FLUIDS; FROUDE NUMBER; GRAVITATION; ROTATION;

GRAVITY WAVES;

ASYMMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTRAINMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; FROUDE NUMBER; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GRAVITY FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; ROTATING FLOW; ROTATION; VERTICAL MIXING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 78049231428     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4367.1     Document Type: Article

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