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Document title

Shelf sea fronts'adjustements revealed by satellite IR imagery

Authors(s) and Affiliation(s)

SIMPSON J. H. ; BOWERS D. ;

Abstract

IR imagery from NOAA5 has been used to study the movement of shelf sea fronts. After the elimination of tidal advection, the fronts show remarkable consistency of position and do not adjust to the strong semi-monthly variation in tidal stirring which indicates the operation of a feedback process in vertical mixing.

Keyword(s)

Télédétection ; Mer épicontinentale ; Front océanique ; Hydrologie marine ; Variation ; Atlantique ; Atlantique, Nord ; Mer d'Irlande ; Mer d'Irlande ; Géographie physique

Physical geography

Classification code(s)

531-90 : Hydrologie marine.

531-III : GEOGRAPHIE PHYSIQUE.

Source

Article of periodic

published at : Nature London

Editor :

Millesime : 1979, vol. 280, n^o5724 [pp. 648-651]

Bibliographic references : 8 réf.

Language

Anglais