Shoaling of the nutricline with an increase in near-freezing temperature water in the Makarov Basin

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 635-649

  Nishino, Shigeto ^a   Itoh, Motoyo ^a   Williams, William J ^b   Semiletov, Igor ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

CHEMICAL TRACERS; EAST-SIBERIAN SEAS; ENHANCED COOLING; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PHYTOPLANKTON PRODUCTIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CHANGES; SUBSURFACE LAYER; WATER MASS BOUNDARIES;

NUTRIENTS;

COOLING; DATA SET; FREEZING; MELTWATER; OCEANIC CONVECTION; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA ICE; TRACER; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; CANADA BASIN; CHUKCHI PLATEAU; EAST SIBERIAN SEA; MAKAROV BASIN;

EID: 84878914385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008234     Document Type: Article

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