Impact of the Eastern Weddell ice shelves on water masses in the eastern Weddell Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Thoma, Malte ^a,b   Grosfeld, Klaus ^c,d   Lange, Manfred A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION; FLOW OF WATER; FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEEP WATER; ICE SHELF; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WATER FLOW; WATER MASS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 34447544270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC003212     Document Type: Article

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