Structure and effects of a long lived vortex in the Greenland Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Budéus, Gereon ^a   Cisewski, Boris ^a   Ronski, Stephanie ^a   Dietrich, Desirée ^b   Weitere, Markus ^b  

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

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; VORTEX FLOW;

ANTICYCLONIC ROTATION; BOTTOM WATER PRODUCTION; HYDROGRAPHIC STRUCTURES;

GEOPHYSICS;

BOTTOM WATER; EDDY; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 18344413886     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003gl017983     Document Type: Article

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