A steady-state coupled ocean-polynya flux model of the North Water, Baffin Bay

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 95, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 1-29

  Biggs, Nicholas R T ^a   Willmott, Andrew J ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Polar oceanography; Polynya; Reduced gravity ocean model; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005110235     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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