The Atlantic and summer Pacific waters variability in the Arctic Ocean from 1997 to 2008

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Bourgain, Pascaline ^a   Gascard, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOORING; OCEAN HABITATS; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC BASIN; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC WATER; DEEP BASIN; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; PACIFIC WATER; SEA ICE EXTENT; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME-PERIODS; TO A VERY LARGE; WATER MASS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA SET; HEAT SOURCE; ICE THICKNESS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEA ICE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; WARMING; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84857952830     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051045     Document Type: Article

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