Surface currents and winds at the Delaware Bay mouth

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1282-1293

  Muscarella, P A ^a   Barton, N P ^b   Lipphardt, Jr ^a   Veron, D E ^a   Wong, K C ^a   Kirwan, Jr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal current; Delaware Bay mouth; High frequency radar; Tides; Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model

Indexed keywords

COASTAL CURRENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; EKMAN TRANSPORT; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; MOORING SYSTEM; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; RADAR; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE WIND; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FIELD;

DELAWARE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959727753     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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