Effects of variability of sea ice transport through the Fram Strait on the intensity of the Atlantic deep circulation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 455-467

  Komuro, Yoshiki ^a,b   Hasumi, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER FORMATION; ICE MOVEMENT; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SALINITY; SEA ICE; SURFACE LAYER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT;

EID: 34547891566     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0245-x     Document Type: Article

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