A model study of ocean circulation beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica: Implications for bottom water formation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Jenkins, Adrian ^a   Holland, David M ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; OCEAN STRUCTURES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

ANNUAL GROWTH; ANTI CYCLONIC CIRCULATIONS; BUOYANCY FORCING; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DENSE CURRENTS; FORCED CIRCULATIONS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS;

ICE;

EID: 0037092253     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014589     Document Type: Article

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