Shelf impact on buoyant coastal current instabilities

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-61

  Pennel, Romain ^a   Stegner, Alexandre ^b   BéRanger, Karine ^a  

^a ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Baroclinic flows; Coastal flows; Instability; Laboratory physical models; Primitive equations model; Topographic effects

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC FLOWS; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; COASTAL CURRENTS; COASTAL FLOW; CROSS-SHELF EXCHANGE; CYCLONIC EDDY; CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INITIAL PERTURBATION; INITIAL STATE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LINEAR STABILITY; LINEAR STAGES; MESOSCALE EDDY; MOMENTUM DIFFUSION; NONLINEAR PROCESS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; SHELF SLOPE; SURFACE CURRENT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TWO LAYERS; WATER MASS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); OCEAN HABITATS; PLASMA STABILITY; SLOPE STABILITY;

BUOYANCY;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BUOYANCY FORCING; COASTAL CURRENT; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; LABORATORY METHOD; MEANDER; MESOSCALE EDDY; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SHELF DYNAMICS; STRATIFICATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WATER MASS;

EID: 84857670060     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-016.1     Document Type: Article

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