How does the Red Sea outflow water interact with Gulf of Aden Eddies?

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 133-148

  Ilicak, Mehmet ^a   Özgökmen, Tamay M ^b   Johns, William E ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity current; Gulf of Aden eddies; Mixing; Red Sea overflow

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; CYCLONIC EDDY; GLOBAL MODELS; GRAVITY CURRENTS; GULF OF ADEN; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDIAN OCEAN; MESOSCALE EDDY; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; OUTFLOW WATERS; QUASI-STEADY; RAPID DISCHARGE; RED SEA; RED SEA OVERFLOW; REGIONAL MODEL; SEASONALITY; SOMALIA; VORTEX STRETCHING; WESTERN BOUNDARY;

GRAVITATION; GRAVITY WAVES; MIXING; STORMS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANTICYCLONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DIRECTION; CYCLONE; DATA ASSIMILATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTFLOW; SEASONALITY; UNDERCURRENT; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ARABIAN SEA; GULF OF ADEN; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 78649929034     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.10.006     Document Type: Article

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