Upper ocean heat content in the Nordic seas

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Iorio, Daniela Di ^a   Sloan, Caitlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

ARGO FLOAT; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BASIN BOUNDARY; DATA SETS; GREENLAND; GREENLAND SEA; HEAT CONTENTS; ICELAND BASIN; ICELANDS; INTEGRATED HEAT; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NAO INDEX; NORDIC SEAS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE LAYERS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; UPPER OCEAN; WORLD OCEAN; ZERO CORRELATION;

ENTHALPY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DATA SET; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 68149099644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004674     Document Type: Article

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