Absolute transport estimates of total and individual water masses in the northern Greenland Sea derived from hydrographic and acoustic Doppler current profiler measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Cisewski, Boris ^a   Budéus, Gereon ^a   Krause, Gunther ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ADCP; Circulation; East Greenland Current; Greenland Sea; Transports; West Spitsbergen Current

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; OCEANIC CURRENT; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER MASS;

FRAM STRAIT; GREENLAND SEA;

EID: 0348165954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jc001530     Document Type: Article

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