Labrador Sea Water property variations in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Johnson, Gregory C ^a   Bullister, John L ^a   Gruber, Nicolas ^b  

^a NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; OXYGEN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

APPARENT OXYGEN UTILIZATION (AOU); LABRADOR SEA WATER (LSW); ROCKALL PLATEAU;

SEA ICE; SEAWATER;

DECADAL VARIATION; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

APPARENT OXYGEN UTILIZATIONS; LABRADOR SEA; LABRADOR SEA WATERS; LONG REACH; NORTHEASTERN ATLANTIC; ROCKALL PLATEAU; SPREADING RATE; TIME-PERIODS;

EID: 21844442889     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022404     Document Type: Article

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