On the use of the Stokes number to explain frictional tidal dynamics and water column structure in shelf seas

Ocean Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 391-398

  Souza, A J ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; EARTH ROTATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; STOKES FORMULA; TIDAL CURRENT; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRISH SEA;

EID: 84879123505     PISSN: 18120784     EISSN: 18120792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/os-9-391-2013     Document Type: Article

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