Width of the North Cape Current and location of the Polar Front in the western Barents Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Ingvaldsen, Randi B ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (EOF) DECOMPOSITION; NORTH CAPE CURRENT; WIND FIELDS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

FRONT; OCEANIC CURRENT; WIND FORCING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 26844456405     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023440     Document Type: Article

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