Modelling Circumpolar Deep Water intrusions on the Amundsen Sea continental shelf, Antarctica

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2008, Pages

  Thoma, Malte ^a,b   Jenkins, Adrian ^a   Holland, David ^c   Jacobs, Stan ^d  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; MILITARY OPERATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

AMUNDSEN SEAS; ANNUAL CHANGES; ANTARCTICA; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; COORDINATE MODELS; OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; PINE ISLAND BAYS; PINE ISLAND GLACIERS; SHELF BREAKS; SHELF EDGES; TEMPORAL VARIABILITIES; TIME SCALES; WATER INTRUSIONS; WIND FORCING;

CHARGE DENSITY WAVES;

CIRCULATION MODELING; DEEP WATER FORMATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SHELF BREAK; SUBMARINE TROUGH; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND FORCING;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; PINE ISLAND GLACIER; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 57849128519     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034939     Document Type: Article

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