Increasing exchanges at Greenland-Scotland Ridge and their links with the North Atlantic Oscillation and Arctic Sea Ice

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Zhang, Jinlun ^a   Steele, Michael ^a   Rothrock, D Andrew ^a   Lindsay, Ronald W ^a  

^a Applied Physics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; SALINE WATER; SALTS; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL;

FRESHWATER; ICE-OCEAN MODEL; RECIRCULATION;

FLOW OF WATER;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; INFLOW; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SALINITY; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 3543086248     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019304     Document Type: Article

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