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Filtering by: Creator Yueh, S. H. Decade 1970-1979 Has journal sim Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

The spring transition in currents over the Oregon continental shelf

Creator:

Huyer, Adrianna, 1945-, Sobey, E. J. C., and Smith, Robert L. (Robert Lloyd), 1935-

Abstract:

Current meter moorings maintained over the Oregon continental shelf in 1973 and 1975 clearly show the difference between winter and spring oceanographic regimes and the rapid transition between the regimes. In winter the mean alongshore current is northward at all depths and strongest near shore; there is no mean vertical...

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and 40 m, with apparent annual ranges of about 35 cm in sea level and 60 cm s-' in currents. Weaker