On the waters upstream of Nares Strait, Arctic Ocean, from 1991 to 2012

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 83-96

  Jackson, Jennifer M ^a   Lique, Camille ^a,c   Alkire, Matthew ^a   Steele, Michael ^a   Lee, Craig M ^a   Smethie, William M ^b   Schlosser, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; Lincoln Sea; Nares Strait; Ocean circulation; Water mass modification

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DATA SET; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; MIXED LAYER; MOORING SYSTEM; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; STRAIT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA BASIN; EURASIAN BASIN; LINCOLN SEA; NARES STRAIT;

EID: 84890830103     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.11.025     Document Type: Article

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