Circulation on the central Bering Sea shelf, July 2008 to July 2010

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Danielson, S ^a   Weingartner, T ^a   Aagaard, K ^b   Zhang, J ^b   Woodgate, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

BAROCLINIC; BERING SEA; BOTTOM FRICTION; BRINE REJECTIONS; COASTAL WATERS; COLD WINTER; DENSITY GRADIENTS; FLOW VARIATIONS; HINDCASTS; ICE PRODUCTION; INTEGRATED EQUATIONS; LOW FREQUENCY; MOMENTUM BALANCES; NUTRIENT-RICH WATER; SHALLOW WATERS; SYSTEM CHANGE; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL COHERENCE; WATER COLUMNS; WATER DEPTH;

WIND;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; EKMAN LAYER; HINDCASTING; MOORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84867533162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008303     Document Type: Article

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