Heat flux variations in the eastern Norwegian Atlantic Current toward the Arctic from moored instruments, 1995-2005

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Orvik, Kjell Arild ^a   Skagseth, Øystein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIERS; HEAT FLUX; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

HEAT FLUX VARIATIONS; MINOR MODULATING EFFECT; MOORED TEMPERATURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANOMALY; HEAT FLUX; OCEANIC CURRENT; WARMING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 25444481106     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023487     Document Type: Article

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