Influence of the West Spitsbergen Current on the local climate

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1088-1093

  Walczowski, Waldemar ^a   Piechura, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Nordic seas; Sea ice extention; Thermohaline circulation

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATLANTIC WATER; FRAM STRAIT; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LOCAL CLIMATE; LOCAL CONDITIONS; NORDIC SEAS; SEA ICE CONDITIONS; SEA-ICE COVER; SEA-ICE EXTENTION; SPITSBERGEN; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; WEST SPITSBERGEN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MOORING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; TIME SERIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADVECTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ICE COVER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANIC CURRENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT; NORWEGIAN SEA; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 79957503692     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2338     Document Type: Article

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