U.S. contributions to the physical oceanography of continental shelves in the early 1990's

S.J. Lentz

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Outer Shelf and Exchange with the Open Ocean
  • 2.1 West Coast of the United States
  • 2.2 East Coast of United States
• 3. The Wind-Driven Cross-Shelf Circulation
  • 3.1 Surface Boundary Layer
  • 3.2 Bottom Boundary Layer
  • 3.3 Interior
  • 3.4 Inner-Shelf
• 4. River Discharge onto the Shelf
• 5. Summary
• References