Cyclone-induced hyperpycnal turbidity currents in a submarine canyon

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Liu, James T ^a   Wang, Yu Huai ^a   Yang, Rick J ^a   Hsu, Ray T ^a   Kao, Shuh Ji ^b   Lin, Hui Ling ^a   Kuo, Fang Hsu ^c  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^c Taiwan Ocean Research Institute   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STORMS; SUBMARINES;

DENSITY CURRENTS; DIRECT LINKS; FIELD SCALE; HYPERPYCNAL; HYPERPYCNAL FLOWS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SMALL MOUNTAINOUS RIVERS; SUBMARINE CANYON; TRANSPORT AGENT; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CYCLONE; DEEP SEA; DENSITY CURRENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SUBMARINE CANYON; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITY CURRENT; TYPHOON;

EID: 84861413305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007630     Document Type: Article

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