Sediment transport to the Arctic Ocean and adjoining cold oceans

Nordic Hydrology

Volumn 37, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 413-432

  Hasholt, Bent ^a   Bobrovitskaya, Nelly ^b   Bogen, Jim ^c   McNamara, James ^d   Mernild, Sebastian H ^a   Milburn, David ^e   Walling, Desmond E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b STATE HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c NORWEGIAN WATER RESOURCES AND ENERGY DIRECTORATE   (Norway)

^d BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Water Resources Division   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Glacierized basins; Non glacierized basins; Sediment fluxes; Sediment transport; Specific sediment yields

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ESTIMATION; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; GLACIERIZED BASINS; SEDIMENT FLUX; SEDIMENT FLUXES; SPECIFIC SEDIMENT YIELDS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BEDLOAD; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARINE SEDIMENT; MONITORING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; GREENLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 33845930853     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2006.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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