Seismic reflection imaging of water mass boundaries in the Norwegian Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Nandi, Papia ^a   Holbrook, W Steven ^a   Pearse, Scott ^b   Páramo, Pedro ^a   Schmitt, Raymond W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

3025 Marine Geology and Geophysics: Marine seismics (0935); 4283 Oceanography: General: Water masses; 4524 Oceanography: Physical: Fine structure and microstructure

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVES; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

INTERNAL WAVE STRAINS; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; THERMOHALINE INTRUSIONS; WATER MASS BOUNDARIES;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

INTERNAL WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 16644382560     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021325     Document Type: Article

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