Advective and atmospheric forced changes in heat and fresh water content in the Norwegian Sea, 1951-2010

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6221-6228

  Mork, Kjell Arne ^a,b   Skagseth, Øystein ^a,b   Ivshin, Victor ^c   Ozhigin, Vladimir ^c   Hughes, Sarah L ^d   Valdimarsson, Hédinn ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO)   (Russian Federation)

^d MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER; WATER CONTENT;

AIR-SEA HEAT FLUX; ARCTIC WATERS; ATLANTIC WATER; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HYDROGRAPHIC CHANGES; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN CIRCULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; HEAT BALANCE; HYDROGRAPHY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; WATER CONTENT; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84907942327     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061038     Document Type: Article

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