Variability in Atlantic water temperature and transport at the entrance to the Arctic Ocean, 19972010

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 852-863

  Beszczynska Mller, Agnieszka ^a   Fahrbach, Eberhard ^a   Schauer, Ursula ^a   Hansen, Edmond ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; Atlantic water; Fram Strait; moorings; Oceanic transports; West Spitsbergen Current

Indexed keywords

ARRAY; MOORING SYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIMESCALE; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FRAM STRAIT; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84863593496     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fss056     Document Type: Review

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