Surface buoyant plumes from melting icebergs in the Labrador Sea

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 91, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-9

  Yankovsky, Alexander E ^a   Yashayaev, Igor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Front; Iceberg; Internal wave; Labrador Sea; Meltwater plume

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; MELTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER;

FRONT; ICEBERG; INTERNAL WAVES; LABRADOR SEA; MELTWATER PLUME;

SEA ICE;

BUOYANCY; DENSITY; ICE DRIFT; ICEBERG; INTERNAL WAVE; MELTING; MELTWATER; PLUME; PROFILER; PYCNOCLINE; SWELL; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84902483414     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2014.05.014     Document Type: Article

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