Cooling of the West Spitsbergen Current: Isopycnal diffusion by topographic vorticity waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Nilsen, Frank ^a,b   Gjevik, Bjørn ^c   Schauer, Ursula ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT LOSSES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

COOLING; HEAT BUDGET; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRAPPED WAVE; VORTICITY;

EID: 33847304067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC002991     Document Type: Article

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