Model studies of dense water overflows in the Faroese Channels Topical Collection on the 5th International Workshop on Modelling the Ocean (IWMO) in Bergen, Norway 17-20 June 2013

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 273-292

  Cuthbertson, Alan ^a,c   Davies, Peter ^a   Stashchuk, Nataliya ^b   Vlasenko, Vasiliy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circulations; Computational model; Dense water outflows; Faroese Channels; Laboratory model; North Atlantic; Overflows

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894049397     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-013-0685-2     Document Type: Article

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