Physical structure of the Barents Sea Polar Front near Storbanken in August 2007

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 130, Issue , 2014, Pages 256-262

  Vage S ^a,b   Basedow, S L ^b,c   Tande, K S ^c   Zhou, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Barents Sea Polar Front; Currents; High resolution survey; Hydrography; Storbanken; Sub mesoscale variability

Indexed keywords

HIGH-RESOLUTION SURVEY; HYDROGRAPHY; POLAR FRONT; STORBANKEN; SUB-MESOSCALE VARIABILITY;

AQUACULTURE; MARINE ENGINEERING; OCEAN CURRENTS;

SURVEYS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BAROTROPIC MOTION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELING; HYDROGRAPHY; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MELTWATER; MIXING; PARAMETERIZATION; POLAR FRONT; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; STORBANKEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84888986869     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2011.11.019     Document Type: Article

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