Arctic Ocean Circulation

Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 211-225

  Rudels, B ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; Atlantic Water; Barents Sea; Bering Strait; Brine rejection; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Climate variability; Deep waters; Entrainment; Fram Strait; Halocline; Ice formation; Mixing; Nordic Seas; Open ocean convection; Polar Mixed Layer; Shelf slope convection; Thermohaline circulation; Water mass formation; Water masses; Scharacteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884432027     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012374473-9.00601-9     Document Type: Chapter

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