Direct observations of sea-ice thickness and brine rejection off Sakhalin in the Sea of Okhotsk

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 29, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1541-1548

  Fukamachi, Yasushi ^a   Shirasawa, Kunio ^a   Polomoshnov, Anatoliy M ^b   Ohshima, Kay I ^a   Kalinin, Ervin ^b   Nihashi, Sohey ^a   Melling, Humfrey ^c   Mizuta, Genta ^a   Wakatsuchi, Masaaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SakhNIPI ^*  (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brine rejection; Ice thickness; Ice profiling sonar; Polynyas; Sea ice; The Sea of Okhotsk; Time series

Indexed keywords

BRINE; HEAT FLUX; ICE MOVEMENT; ICE THICKNESS; MOORING SYSTEM; PACK ICE; POLYNYA; RIVER DISCHARGE; SALINITY; SEA ICE; SONAR; TIME SERIES;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 67349176050     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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