Variability in river runoff distribution in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Anderson, Leif G ^a   Jutterström, Sara ^a   Kaltin, Staffan ^a   Jones, E Peter ^b   Björk, Göran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; Arctic oscillation; Freshwater

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; FRESHWATER INPUT; HALOCLINE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIAN BASIN;

EID: 2342552945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003jc001773     Document Type: Article

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