Distribution of Atlantic and Pacific waters in the upper Arctic Ocean: implications for circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 765-768

  Jones, E Peter ^a   Anderson, Leif G ^b   Swift, James H ^c  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; NITRATES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHOSPHATES; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; EAST-SIBERIAN SEAS; NORTH AMERICAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC WATER; PHOSPHATE CONCENTRATION; SOURCE WATERS; SURFACE LAYERS;

SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CIRCULATION; SOURCE WATER;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032520547     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00464     Document Type: Article

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