Circulation and stratification of the early Turonian Western Interior Seaway: Sensitivity to a variety of forcings

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 332, Issue , 1999, Pages 181-190

  Kump, Lee R ^a   Slingerland, Rudy L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; MIXING; RUNOFF; SEA ICE; TURBULENT FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; COASTAL OCEAN MODEL; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; TURBULENT MIXING; VERTICALLY STRATIFIED;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BOREAL; CYCLONE; HYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF; SALINITY; STRATIFICATION; TURBULENT FLOW; TURBULENT MIXING; TURONIAN; WATER MASS;

WESTERN INTERIOR;

EID: 84870910472     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2332-9.181     Document Type: Article

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