Tidal dynamics in the Gulf of Maine and New England Shelf: An application of FVCOM

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Changsheng ^a,b   Huang, Haosheng ^c   Beardsley, Robert C ^d   Xu, Qichun ^a   Limeburner, Richard ^d   Cowles, Geoffrey W ^a   Sun, Yunfang ^a   Qi, Jianhua ^a   Lin, Huichan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; TIDES; TSUNAMIS;

BOTTOM FRICTION; BOTTOM STRESS; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; COMPLEX DYNAMICS; ENERGY FLUXES; FINITE-VOLUME; GEORGES BANK; GULF OF MAINE; INTERNAL TIDES; LINEAR DYNAMICS; MOMENTUM BALANCES; NEW ENGLAND; NONLINEAR CURRENT; OCEAN MODEL; TIDAL CURRENTS; TIDAL DYNAMICS; TIDAL ELEVATIONS; TIDAL ENERGY; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

TIDAL POWER;

ADVECTION; BOTTOM FRICTION; BOTTOM STRESS; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; ENERGY FLUX; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; STRATIFICATION; TIDAL CURRENT; TIDAL CYCLE; TIDAL MODELING; TIDAL POWER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GEORGES BANK; GULF OF MAINE; MASSACHUSETTS; MONOMOY ISLAND; NANTUCKET; NEW ENGLAND SHELF; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83655190991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007054     Document Type: Article

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