Halocline structure in the Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Shimada, Koji ^a   Itoh, Motoyo ^a   Nishino, Shigeto ^a   McLaughlin, Fiona ^b   Carmack, Eddy ^b   Proshutinsky, Andrey ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOPHYSICS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; ICE; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; SALINE WATER;

HALOCLINE STRUCTURES; ISOHALINES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

HALOCLINE; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA BASIN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 17744389194     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021358     Document Type: Article

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