Two modes of appearance of the Odden ice tongue in the Greenland Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2497-2500

  Wadhams, Peter ^a   Comiso, Josefino C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FREEZING; HEAT CONVECTION; ICE PROBLEMS; OCEAN CURRENTS; REMOTE SENSING; SEAWATER; CARBON;

GREENLAND SEA; OCEAN CONVECTION; ODDEN ICE TONGUE; WINTER; CARBON CYCLES; EAST GREENLAND CURRENTS; OPEN OCEAN; SALT FLUX; WATER COLUMNS;

SEA ICE; ICE;

SEA ICE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

GREENLAND SEA;

EID: 0033394704     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900502     Document Type: Article

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