Salinity trends on the Siberian shelves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Steele, Michael ^a   Ermold, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

1655 Global change: Water cycles (1836); 4207 Oceanography: General: Arctic and Antarctic oceanography; 4215 Oceanography: General: Climate and interannual variability (3309)

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

FRESHWATER; RIVER DISCHARGE RATE; SALINITY TRENDS; SHELVES;

SEAWATER;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; LONG-TERM CHANGE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SALINITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EAST SIBERIAN SEA; KARA SEA; LAPTEV SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WHITE SEA; WORLD;

EID: 14544299593     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021302     Document Type: Article

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