On the nature of winter cooling and the recent temperature shift on the northern gulf of Alaska shelf

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Janout, Markus A ^a   Weingartner, Thomas J ^a   Royer, Thomas C ^b   Danielson, Seth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; RUNOFF; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

AIR-SEA HEAT FLUX; ATMOSPHERIC HEAT; BUOYANCY FLUXES; CONDUCTIVITY TEMPERATURE DEPTHS; DESTABILIZING EFFECT; GULF OF ALASKA; MIXING PROCESS; OCEAN HEAT FLUX; SALINITY STRATIFICATION; SHELF WATERS; SPRING TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE SHIFT; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER COLUMNS; WINTER COOLING;

COOLING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BUOYANCY; HEAT FLUX; RUNOFF; SALINITY; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; VERTICAL MIXING;

GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77953581963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005774     Document Type: Article

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