Structure of unsteady overflow in the supsk furrow of the baltic sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Zhurbas, Victor ^a,b   Elken, Jüri ^b   Paka, Vadim ^a   Piechura, Jan ^c   Väli, Germo ^b   Chubarenko, Irina ^a   Golenko, Nikolay ^a   Shchuka, Sergey ^a  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; SHIPS; STORMS;

BALTIC SEA; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; DATA SETS; DENSITY STRUCTURES; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GRAVITY CURRENTS; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL MODELING; RESEARCH VESSELS; ROTATING FLOW;

GRAVITATION;

ANTICYCLONE; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYCLONE; DATA SET; HALOCLINE; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; UNSTEADY FLOW; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 84859915580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007284     Document Type: Article

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