'Great Salinity Anomalies' in the North Atlantic

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-68

  Belkin, Igor M ^a,b,e   Levitus, Sydney ^a   Antonov, John ^a,c   Malmberg, Svend Aage ^d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; SALINITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN, (NORTH);

EID: 0031826470     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(98)00015-9     Document Type: Article

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