Beaufort shelf break eddies and shelf-basin exchange of Pacific summer water in the western Arctic Ocean detected by satellite and modeling analyses

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Watanabe, Eiji ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTS; RADIOMETERS; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CANADA BASIN; EKMAN TRANSPORT; GLOBAL IMAGER; HYDROGRAPHIC STRUCTURES; ICE-OCEAN MODELS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LATERAL VELOCITIES; MESOSCALE EDDY; MODELING ANALYSIS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PACIFIC WATER; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE DATA SETS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA WINDS; SHELF BREAK; SHELF SLOPE; SUMMER SEASON; SURFACE WIND FIELDS; SURFACE WINDS; TYPE II; UPSTREAM REGION; WARM EDDY; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND REGIME;

SHEAR FLOW;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DATA SET; EKMAN TRANSPORT; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MESOSCALE EDDY; MODIS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE DATA; SHELF BREAK; SURFACE WIND; WIND FIELD;

ARCTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 80052310881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006259     Document Type: Article

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