Wind-driven shelf/basin exchange on an Arctic shelf: The joint roles of ice cover extent and shelf-break bathymetry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 2003, Pages

  Carmack, Eddy ^a   Chapman, David C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; ICE; WIND EFFECTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE WARMING; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; ICE COVER EXTENT; ICE-FREE CONDITIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MODEL CALCULATIONS; WATER-MASS PROPERTIES;

OCEAN CURRENTS; ICE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLAR REGION; SEA ICE; SHELF DYNAMICS; UPWELLING;

BEAUFORT SEA;

EID: 0141942112     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017526     Document Type: Article

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