Salt release from warming sea ice

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Widell, Karolina ^a,b   Fer, Ilker ^a   Haugan, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; HEAT FLUX; SALTS; SEA ICE;

ICE-OCEAN INTERFACE; OCEANIC HEAT FLUX; SALT FLUX;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

HEAT BALANCE; HEAT FLUX; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; PLUME; SALT; SEA ICE; WARMING;

ARCTIC;

EID: 33750616892     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026262     Document Type: Article

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