Recent large increases in freshwater fluxes from Greenland into the North Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Bamber, Jonathan ^a   Van Den Broeke, Michiel ^b   Ettema, Janneke ^b,c   Lenaerts, Jan ^b   Rignot, Eric ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; FRESHWATER FLUXES; GREENLAND; ICE SHEET; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PAN-ARCTIC; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; RATE OF INCREASE; RIVER RUNOFFS;

WATER;

EVAPORATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; IRMINGER SEA;

EID: 84867497523     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052552     Document Type: Article

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