Structure of the Fram Strait branch of the boundary current in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean

Polar Science

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 53-71

  Pnyushkov, Andrey V ^a   Polyakov, Igor V ^a   Ivanov, Vladimir V ^a,b   Kikuchi, Takashi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; Boundary current; Current observations; Numerical model

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC MOTION; BAROTROPIC MOTION; BOUNDARY CURRENT; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; HEAT SOURCE; MOORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIAN BASIN; FRAM STRAIT; LOMONOSOV RIDGE; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84879083518     PISSN: 18739652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polar.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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