Sea Ice and Oceanography

Sea Ice: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 79-111

  Brandon, Mark A ^a   Cottier, Finlo R ^b   Nilsen, Frank ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic halocline and cold halocline layer (CHL); Cascades of dense, brine enriched water in arctic and antarctic; Cascading off Weddell sea break, eastern side edge of antarctic peninsula; Cold salty variety of high salinity shelf water (HSSW); Future sampling technology; Physics and biology of polar oceans and foundation of subject of oceanography; Polynyas sensible heat polynyas and latent heat polynyas; Processes of formation and melt, dominated by seasonal forcing; Salinity stratified layer of water marking transition between two water masses; Sea ice and oceanography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878969277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317145.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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