Relation between the wind stress curl in the North Atlantic and the Atlantic inflow to the Nordic Seas

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Sandø, Anne Britt ^a,b   Furevik, T ^b,c  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; INFLOW; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 51549085242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004236     Document Type: Article

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