Assessing decadal changes in the Deep Western Boundary Current absolute transport southeast of Cape Farewell, Greenland, from hydrography and altimetry

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Sarafanov, Artem ^a   Falina, Anastasia ^a   Lherminier, Pascale ^b   Mercier, Herlé ^b   Sokov, Alexey ^a   Gourcuff, Claire ^b  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; HYDROLOGY; NAVIGATION; SURFACE WATERS;

BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC TRANSPORT; DECADAL CHANGE; DECADAL VARIABILITY; DEEP WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; GREENLAND; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; REFERENCE LEVELS; SEA SURFACES; TIME-SCALES; TRANSPORT VARIABILITY; VELOCITY CHANGES; WATER COLUMNS;

VELOCITY;

ALTIMETRY; BAROCLINIC MOTION; DECADAL VARIATION; HYDROGRAPHY; TIMESCALE; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER COLUMN; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ARCTIC; CAPE FAREWELL; EGGER ISLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 78249245776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005811     Document Type: Article

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