Increasing amount of Arctic Ocean deep waters in the Greenland Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 4361-4366

  Somavilla, R ^a   Schauer, U ^a   Budeus G ^a  

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

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; deep waters; Greenland Sea; ocean heat content; sea level rise; warming salinification

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; DEEP WATER; GREENLAND SEA; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; SEA LEVEL RISE; WARMING/SALINIFICATION;

ADVECTION; BUDGET CONTROL; ENTHALPY;

SEA LEVEL;

DEEP WATER; ENERGY BUDGET; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT BALANCE; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84882764655     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50775     Document Type: Article

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