Oxygen isotope and salinity variations in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Srivastava, Rohit ^a   Ramesh, R ^a   Prakash, Satya ^a   Anikumar, N ^b   Sudhakar, M ^b  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b NATIONAL CENTRE FOR ANTARCTIC AND OCEAN RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; FREEZING; GEOCHEMISTRY; MELTING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

OXYGEN ISOTOPES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EVAPORATION; FREEZING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SALINITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 39549099112     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031790     Document Type: Article

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