The wind- and wave-driven inner-shelf circulation

Annual Review of Marine Science

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 317-343

  Lentz, Steven J ^a   Fewings, Melanie R ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

coastal oceanography; cross shelf exchange; nearshore; upwelling; wave current interaction

Indexed keywords

COASTAL OCEANOGRAPHY; CROSS-SHELF EXCHANGE; NEARSHORE; UPWELLING; WAVE CURRENT INTERACTION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; MINES;

GRAVITY WAVES;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; GRAVITY WAVE; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; OPEN OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SURF ZONE; UPWELLING; WATER DEPTH; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SEA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; WATER FLOW; WIND;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WIND;

EID: 83655192949     PISSN: 19411405     EISSN: 19410611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-120709-142745     Document Type: Article

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