The Siberian Coastal Current: A wind- and buoyancy-forced Arctic coastal current

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C12, 1999, Pages 29697-29713

  Weingartner, Thomas J ^a   Danielson, Seth ^a   Sasaki, Yasunori ^b   Pavlov, Vladimir ^c   Kulakov, Mikhail ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BUOYANCY; COASTAL CURRENT; WIND FORCING;

CHUKCHI SEA; SIBERIAN COASTAL CURRENT;

EID: 0033573441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900161     Document Type: Article

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