The arrival of recently formed Labrador Sea Water in the deep western boundary current at 26.5 °N

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2249-2252

  Molinari, Robert L ^a   Fine, Rana A ^a   Douglas Wilson, W ^b   Curry, Ruth G ^a   Abell, Jeff ^c   McCartney, Michael S ^a  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIME SERIES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; SENSORS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DEEP WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; DENSITY RANGE; HYDROGRAPHIC PROPERTIES; LABRADOR SEA WATERS; NORTH ATLANTIC; TRACER CONCENTRATION; TRANSIENT TRACERS; TRANSIT TIME;

SEAWATER; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CONDUCTIVITY TEMPERATURE DEPTH (CTD) SENSOR;

DENSITY; SALINITY; WATER MASS;

LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 0032125065     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01853     Document Type: Article

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