The Odden ice feature of the Greenland Sea and its association with atmospheric pressure, wind, and surface flux variability from reanalyses

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Rogers, Jeffrey C ^a   Hung, Meng Pai ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FLUXES; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS; WIND POWER;

AIR TEMPERATURE (T); AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; ATLANTIC; ENERGY FLUXES; GREENLAND SEA; HIGH PRESSURE (HP); ICE COVER; LONG WAVES; LONGWAVE RADIATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION (NAO); ROTATED PRINCIPAL COMPONENT (RPC); SEA LEVEL PRESSURE (SLP); SURFACE FLUXES; SURFACE WINDS; TIME SERIES; WINTER SEA ICE (WSI);

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FORMATION MECHANISM; ICE COVER; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; WINTER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 48249139102     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032938     Document Type: Article

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