Buoyancy-driven currents in eddying ocean models

Buoyancy-Driven Flows

Volumn 9781107008878, Issue , 2012, Pages 281-311

  Treguier, Anne Marie ^a   Ferron, Bruno ^a   Dussin, Raphael ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; BUOYANCY DRIVEN FLOWS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; CORIOLIS PARAMETER; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; ROSSBY RADIUS OF DEFORMATION; WATER-MASS FORMATION; WATER-MASS PROPERTIES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 84861319048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511920196.008     Document Type: Chapter

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