Overflows and convectively driven flows

Buoyancy-Driven Flows

Volumn 9781107008878, Issue , 2012, Pages 203-239

  Legg, Sonya ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; STREAM FLOW;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ICELAND-SCOTLAND RIDGE; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; INTERMEDIATE WATERS; LARGE-SCALE OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; SIGNIFICANT MIXING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84884815175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511920196.006     Document Type: Chapter

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