How to identify winter convection in the Greenland Sea from hydrographic summer data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Ronski, S ^a   Budeus G ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGRAPH; OCEANIC CONVECTION; WINTER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 30344454348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JC002156     Document Type: Article

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