Dense shelf water formation along the south-west Australian inner shelf

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Pattiaratchi, Charitha ^a   Hollings, Ben ^a   Woo, Mun ^a   Welhena, Thisara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DENSE SHELF WATER; DENSE WATERS; DOMINANT FACTOR; ELECTRIC GLIDERS; GRAVITY CURRENTS; HYDROLOGICAL DATA; MEAN WIND SPEED; SURFACE COOLING; TELEDYNE; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; WIND-DRIVEN TRANSPORT; WINTER MONTHS;

GLIDERS; STREAM FLOW;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

COOLING; EVAPORATION; GLOBAL OCEAN; SHELF SEA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WIND VELOCITY; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79957959319     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010620     Document Type: Article

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