Shelf circulation and cross-shelf transport out of a bay driven by eddies from an open-ocean current. Part I: Interaction between a barotropic vortex and a steplike topography

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 889-910

  Zhang, Yu ^a   Pedlosky, Joseph ^b   Flierl, Glenn R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Barotropic flow; Currents; Eddies; Potential vorticity; Rossby waves; Topographic effects; Transport; Vortices

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC; EDDIES; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TRANSPORT;

ADVECTION; DEFORMATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; STORMS; TOPOGRAPHY; VORTICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

VORTEX FLOW;

ADVECTION; ANTICYCLONE; BAROTROPIC MOTION; BAY; CYCLONE; EDDY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; OPEN OCEAN; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 79959588889     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4496.1     Document Type: Article

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