Baroclinic instability in the West Spitsbergen Current

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Teigen, S H ^a   Nilsen, F ^a,b   Skogseth, R ^a   Gjevik, B ^c   Beszczynska Moller A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT LOSSES; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; OCEAN HABITATS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VELOCITY; VORTICITY;

BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CURRENT METERS; EFFECTIVE MECHANISMS; LINEAR MODEL; NORMAL MODES; OSCILLATION PERIODS; SURFACE HEAT LOSS; SVALBARD; TRANSIENT SIGNAL; TWO LAYERS; UNSTABLE MODES; VELOCITY FIELD; VORTICITY WAVES; WATER MASS; WAVE PERIOD; WEST SPITSBERGEN CURRENTS;

POWER QUALITY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; GROWTH RATE; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; LINEARITY; MOORING SYSTEM; VELOCITY PROFILE; VORTICITY; WATER MASS; WAVELENGTH;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; WEST SPITSBERGEN CURRENT;

EID: 79960525546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC006974     Document Type: Article

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