Baroclinic rossby radius of deformation in the southern Baltic sea

Oceanologia

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 417-429

  Osiński, Robert ^a   Rak, Daniel ^a   Walczowski, Waldemar ^a   Piechura, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Baroclinic rossby radius; Brunt V is l frequency; Mesoscale dynamics; Southern baltic sea

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC WAVE; DEFORMATION; MESOSCALE MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATIFICATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 78049514266     PISSN: 00783234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5697/oc.52-3.417     Document Type: Article

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