On the role of coastal troughs in the circulation of warm circumpolar deep water on Antarctic shelves

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-64

  St Laurent, Pierre ^a   Klinck, John M ^a   Dinniman, Michael S ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL WAVES;

ANTARCTIC SHELF; ANTARCTICA; CONTINENTAL SHELFS; DEEPWATER; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELVES; MASS BALANCE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ONSHORE FLOW; PROCESS-ORIENTED;

ICE;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; COASTAL WATER; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEEP WATER; HEAT TRANSFER; ICE SHELF; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; ROSSBY WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84874953166     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-11-0237.1     Document Type: Article

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