Modeling sea ice production and dense shelf water formation in coastal polynyas around East Antarctica

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Kusahara, Kazuya ^a   Hasumi, Hiroyasu ^a   Tamura, Takeshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACTIVE FORMATION; ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEEP WATER; DENSE SHELF WATER; EAST ANTARCTICA; FORMATION RATES; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; ICE-OCEAN COUPLED MODEL; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SEA ICE PRODUCTION; SHELF BREAK; THRESHOLD DENSITY;

SEA ICE;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; COAST; COASTAL ZONE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DENSE WATER; GLACIER; ICEBERG; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYNYA; RESOLUTION; SEA ICE; SHELF BREAK; THRESHOLD;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 77957740027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006133     Document Type: Article

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