Seasonal to interannual variability of the Pacific water boundary current in the Beaufort Sea

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 127, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-20

  Brugler, Eric T ^a   Pickart, Robert S ^a   Moore, G W K ^b   Roberts, Steven ^c   Weingartner, Thomas J ^c   Statscewich, Hank ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA ICE; WATER;

ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS; BOUNDARY CURRENTS; FRESHWATER TRANSPORTS; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SATELLITE FIELDS; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WEATHER STATIONS;

MOORING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BOUNDARY CURRENT; MOORING SYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER MASS; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT;

ALASKA; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARROW; BEAUFORT SEA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84908040675     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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