Modeling winter circulation under landfast ice: The interaction of winds with landfast ice

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Kasper, Jeremy L ^a,b   Weingartner, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; SEA LEVEL; VORTICITY;

BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CROSS-SHORE TRANSPORT; CURRENTS FLOWING; FINITE WIDTH; ICE COVER; ICE DYNAMICS; ICE EDGE; ICE ZONES; IDEALIZED MODELS; KELVIN WAVES; LAND-FAST; LONG WAVELENGTH; VORTICITY EQUATION; VORTICITY WAVES; WINDS BLOWING; WINTER CIRCULATION;

ICE;

BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ICE COVER; ICE SHELF; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; VORTICITY; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVELENGTH; WINTER;

EID: 84859721841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007649     Document Type: Article

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