Entrainment in the Denmark Strait overflow plume by meso-scale eddies

Ocean Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 301-310

  Voet, G ^a   Quadfasel, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; INTERNAL WAVE; MESOSCALE EDDY; MOORING SYSTEM; PLUME; SILL; TIME SERIES;

ARCTIC; DENMARK STRAIT;

EID: 77649241947     PISSN: 18120784     EISSN: 18120792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/os-6-301-2010     Document Type: Article

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