Mooring-based observations of double-diffusive staircases over the laptev sea slope

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-109

  Polyakov, Igor V ^a   Pnyushkov, Andrey V ^a   Rembe, Robert ^a   Ivanov, Vladimir V ^a   Lenn, Y D ^b   Padman, Laurie ^c   Carmack, Eddy C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Earth and Space Research   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Salinity; Seas gulfs bays; Temperature; Time series

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC SEA ICE; ATLANTIC WATER; DEPTH RANGE; DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION; DOUBLE DIFFUSION; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERNAL WAVES; ISOPYCNAL SURFACES; LAPTEV SEA; OCEANIC HEAT FLUX; SALINITY; SEAS/GULFS/BAYS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME-AVERAGED; WATER TEMPERATURES;

HEAT FLUX; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEA ICE; STAIRS; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES;

MOORING;

DOUBLE DIFFUSION; EDDY; HALOCLINE; HEAT FLUX; INTERNAL WAVE; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MOORING SYSTEM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SALINITY; SEA ICE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; LAPTEV SEA;

EID: 84857680257     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JPO4606.1     Document Type: Article

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