Ice-ocean turbulent exchange in the Arctic summer measured by an autonomous underwater vehicle

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 5 PART 2, 2008, Pages 2287-2308

  Hayes, Daniel R ^a,b   Morison, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT BALANCE; HEAT FLUX; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SUMMER; TURBULENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 55949117287     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.5_part_2.2287     Document Type: Article

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