Comparing two climatologies of the Labrador Sea: Geopotential and isopycnal

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-39

  Kulan, Nilgun ^a,b   Myers, Paul G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC MOTION; CLIMATOLOGY; COLD FRONT; GEOPOTENTIAL; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 68349131703     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: 14809214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3137/OC281.2009     Document Type: Article

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