Analysis and modeling of hydrothermal plume data acquired from the 85°E segment of the Gakkel Ridge

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Stranne, Christian ^a   Sohn, Robert A ^b   Liljebladh, Bengt ^a   Nakamura, Ko Ichi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOORS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REDOX REACTIONS; SOIL CONSERVATION; THERMAL PLUMES;

A-THERMAL; ANALYSIS AND MODELING; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GEOTRAVERSE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; HYDROTHERMAL PROCESS; LOW TEMPERATURES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; REDOX POTENTIALS; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TURBULENT PLUME; VALLEY FLOOR;

LANDFORMS;

DATA ACQUISITION; DIFFUSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; LOW TEMPERATURE; REDOX CONDITIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; GAKKEL RIDGE;

EID: 77954499927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005776     Document Type: Article

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