Direct Observations of North Pacific Ventilation: Brine Rejection in the Okhotsk Sea

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5652, 2003, Pages 1952-1955

  Shcherbina, Andrey Y ^a   Talley, Lynne D ^a   Rudnick, Daniel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEA ICE;

ICE FORMATION;

BRINES;

SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BRINE; ICE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; VENTILATION; WATER MASS;

AIRFLOW; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BRINE REJECTION; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEA; SEA ICE; THERMAL ANALYSIS; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 0346243806     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1088692     Document Type: Article

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