Oceanographic regime shift during 1997 in Disko Bay, Western Greenland

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 634-644

  Hansen, Marc Overgaard ^a,d   Nielsen, Torkel Gissel ^a,b   Stedmon, Colin A ^b,c   Munk, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; DATA SET; DOMINANCE; METEOROLOGY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES; WATER COLUMN; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); DISKO BAY; GREENLAND;

EID: 84862696119     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.2.0634     Document Type: Article

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