Arctic Ocean basin liquid freshwater storage trend 1992-2012

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 961-968

  Rabe, B ^a   Karcher, M ^a,b   Kauker, F ^a,b   Schauer, U ^a   Toole, J M ^c   Krishfield, R A ^c   Pisarev, S ^d   Kikuchi, T ^e   Su, J ^f  

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

^b OASys   (Germany)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Arctic; liquid freshwater; model; observation

Indexed keywords

MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; WATER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; FRESHWATER CONTENTS; FRESHWATER STORAGES; OBSERVATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OSCILLATION INDEX;

LIQUIDS;

FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OSCILLATION; SALINITY; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84893783992     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058121     Document Type: Article

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