Hydrographic changes in the Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean with focus on an upper ocean freshwater anomaly between 2007 and 2010

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4699-4715

  De Steur, L ^a,b   Steele, M ^c   Hansen, E ^b   Morison, J ^c   Polyakov, I ^d   Olsen, S M ^e,f   Melling, H ^g   McLaughlin, F A ^g   Kwok, R ^h   Smethie, W M ⁱ   Schlosser, P ^i,j  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^f GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^g INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^j Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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Author keywords

Arctic Ocean freshwater; hydrographic observations; Lincoln Sea

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADIAN ARCHIPELAGO; CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO; FRESHWATER CONTENTS; HYDROGRAPHIC CHANGES; HYDROGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS; LINCOLN SEA; WATER-MASS PROPERTIES;

WATER;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; FRESHWATER INPUT; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; UPPER OCEAN; WATER MASS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; FRAM STRAIT; GREENLAND; LINCOLN SEA; MAKAROV BASIN; NARES STRAIT; NORTH POLE;

EID: 84887096525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20341     Document Type: Article

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