Dense-Water Production and Overflow from an Arctic Coastal Polynya in Storfjorden

The Nordic Seas: An Integrated Perspective: Oceanography, Climatology, Biogeochemistry, and Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 73-88

  Skogseth, Ragnheid ^a   Fer, Ilker ^b   Haugan, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climatic changes Arctic regions; Ocean atmosphere interaction Arctic regions; Oceanography Arctic regions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DENSITY ANOMALIES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SOURCE CONDITIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE HYDROGRAPHY;

SEA ICE;

EID: 33644777478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/158GM07     Document Type: Chapter

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