Warming and freshening of Baffin Bay, 1916-2003

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Zweng, Melissa M ^a   Münchow, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WATER WAVES;

HYDROGRAPHY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SEAWATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; DAVIS STRAIT; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 33845737715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC003093     Document Type: Article

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