Transports of Nordic Seas water masses and excess SF6 through Fram Strait to the Arctic Ocean

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-11

  Marnela, Marika ^a   Rudels, Bert ^a,b   Olsson, K Anders ^c,d   Anderson, Leif G ^d   Jeansson, Emil ^c,d   Torres, Daniel J ^e   Messias, Marie José ^f   Swift, James H ^g   Watson, Andrew J ^f  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AIW; Arctic Ocean; Fram Strait; Geostrophy; LADCP; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic; SF6; Transient tracers; Water masses

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DOPPLER EFFECT; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; ICEBREAKERS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; NATURAL RESOURCES; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SULFUR; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

(P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER (ADCP); ARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER (AIW); ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT; GREEN LAND; ICELAND; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORDIC SEAS; SULPHUR HEXAFLUORIDE; WATER MASSES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; CIRCULATION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HYDROGRAPHY; ICE COVER; INTERMEDIATE WATER; SULFUR; TRACER; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FRAM STRAIT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; YERMAK PLATEAU;

EID: 46449106869     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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