Significant role of the North Icelandic Jet in the formation of Denmark Strait overflow water

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 723-727

  Våge, Kjetil ^a   Pickart, Robert S ^b   Spall, Michael A ^b   Valdimarsson, Héinn ^c   Jónsson, Steingrímur ^c,d   Torres, Daniel J ^b   Østerhus, Svein ^a,e   Eldevik, Tor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AKUREYRI   (Iceland)

^e Uni Research   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; HYDROGRAPHY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; TIMESCALE; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; DENMARK STRAIT; EAST GREENLAND CURRENT; ICELAND;

EID: 80053470573     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1234     Document Type: Article

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