Mean full-depth summer circulation and transports at the northern periphery of the Atlantic Ocean in the 2000s

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sarafanov, Artem ^a   Falina, Anastasia ^a   Mercier, Herlé ^b   Sokov, Alexey ^a   Lherminier, Pascale ^b   Gourcuff, Claire ^b   Gladyshev, Sergey ^a   Gaillard, Fabienne ^b   Daniault, Nathalie ^c  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^c IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; STREAM FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BOX MODELS; DEEP CURRENTS; DEEP WATER; DENSE WATERS; DENSITY SPACE; GREENLAND; GREENLAND-SCOTLAND RIDGE; HYDROGRAPHIC MEASUREMENTS; ICELAND BASIN; LOWER LIMB; MEAN DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHIES; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NORDIC SEAS; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENTS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY DATA; SCOTLAND; UPPER LIMBS; VOLUME FLUX; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PERIPHERAL REGION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; UPPER OCEAN; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAPE FAREWELL; EGGER ISLAND; GREENLAND; NORWEGIAN SEA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84856259552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007572     Document Type: Article

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