Multimodel simulations of Arctic Ocean sea surface height variability in the period 1970-2009

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 8936-8954

  Koldunov, Nikolay V ^a   Serra, Nuno ^a   Köhl, Armin ^a   Stammer, Detlef ^a   Henry, Olivier ^b   Cazenave, Anny ^b   Prandi, Pierre ^c   Knudsen, Per ^d   Andersen, Ole Baltazar ^d   Gao, Yongqi ^e   Johannessen, Johnny ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CLS   (France)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; freshwater content; ocean model; sea level; sea surface height

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; EKMAN PUMPING; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SIMULATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84921522847     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010170     Document Type: Article

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