Barents Sea multidecadal variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Levitus, S ^a   Matishov, G ^b   Seidov, D ^a   Smolyar, I ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN SCIENTIFIC CENTER   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; BARENTS SEA; DEPTH LAYERS; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY;

TIME SERIES;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; DECADAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TIME SERIES; WATER DEPTH;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 72049128282     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039847     Document Type: Article

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