Return of the cold halocline layer to the Amundsen Basin of the Arctic Ocean: Implications for the sea ice mass balance

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 8-1-8-4

  Bjork G ^a   Soderkvist J ^a   Winsor, P ^a   Nikolopoulos, A ^b   Steele, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION; SEA ICE;

COLD HALOCLINE LAYER (CHL);

GEOPHYSICS;

HALOCLINE; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; MASS BALANCE; SEA ICE;

AMUNDSEN BASIN; ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036624108     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014157     Document Type: Article

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