The Atlantic Water flow along the Vøring Plateau: Detecting frontal structures in oceanic station time series

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 297-319

  Nilsen, J Even Ø ^a,b,c   Nilsen, Frank ^b,d  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

15 ring operator W 15 ring operator E; 60 ring operator N 70 ring operator N; Atlantic Water; Baroclinic motion; Fronts; Nordic Seas; Ocean Weather Station M; Topographic effects

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC WATER; BAROCLINIC MOTION; FRONTAL STRUCTURES; FRONTS; NORDIC SEAS; NORWEGIAN ATLANTIC CURRENT (NWAC); TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; BATHYMETRY; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; FRONTAL FEATURE; HALOCLINE; OCEANIC CURRENT; OCEANIC FRONT; THERMOCLINE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA; VORING PLATEAU;

EID: 33847300152     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2006.12.012     Document Type: Article

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