Laboratory Studies of Density Increase on Shelves

Abstract

The long-term goal is to understand the fluid mechanics of buoyancy and wind driven transport on a polar continental shelf, including along-shelf transport and exchange with the deep Arctic Ocean.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2001
Accession Number
ADA626110

Entities

People

  • John A. Whitehead

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arctic Ocean
  • Buoyancy
  • Continental Shelves
  • Convection
  • Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Fluids
  • Froude Number
  • Layers
  • Mechanics
  • Oceans
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Salt Water
  • Steady Flow
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Transport Ships
  • Water

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Polar and Arctic Studies