Kara Sea freshwater dispersion and export in the late 1990s

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Harms, I H ^a   Karcher, M J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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

^c OASys Ocean Atmosphere Systems GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESHWATER INPUT; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALINITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; KARA SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 26444480668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002744     Document Type: Article

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