The establishment of Atlantic Water transport as a topographically trapped slope current off Scotland
Atlantic Water, with its origin in the western Atlantic, enters the Nordic Seas partly as a barotropic current following the continental slope. This water mass is carried across the Atlantic by the baroclinic North Atlantic Current (NAC). When the NAC meets the continental slope at the east side of...
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Taylor & Francis Group
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Tellus: Series A, Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography |
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| Online Access: | http://www.tellusa.net/index.php/tellusa/article/download/19978/pdf_1 |