Effects of atmospheric vorticity on the seasonal hydrographic cycle over the eastern Siberian shelf

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Dmitrenko, Igor A ^a   Kirillov, Sergey A ^b   Tremblay, L B ^c   Bauch, Dorothea ^a   Makhotin, Mikhail ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STATISTICS; VORTICITY; WIND EFFECTS;

CYCLONIC VORTICITY; HYDROGRAPHIC CYCLE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTICYCLONE; DECADAL VARIATION; HYDROGRAPHY; SALINITY; SEASONALITY; SHELF SEA; VORTICITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EAST SIBERIAN SEA; LAPTEV SEA;

EID: 41849151727     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032739     Document Type: Article

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