Mixing and convection in the Greenland Sea from a tracer-release experiment

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6756, 1999, Pages 902-904

  Watson, A J ^a   Messias, M J ^a   Fogelqvist, E ^b   Van Scoy, K A ^c   Johannessen, T ^d   Oliver, K I C ^a   Stevens, D P ^a   Rey, F ^e   Tanhua, T ^b   Olsson, K A ^b   Carse, F ^a   Simonsen, K ^f   Ledwell, J R ^g   Jansen, E ^d   Cooper, D J ^c   Kruepke, J A ^c   Gullyardi, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE FAROE ISLANDS   (Faroe Islands)

^g WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

CONVECTION; MIXING;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; GREENLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

GREENLAND SEA;

EID: 0033613454     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/44807     Document Type: Article

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