Seasonal variability of the warm Atlantic water layer in the vicinity of the Greenland shelf break

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 8530-8537

  Grist, Jeremy P ^a   Josey, Simon A ^a   Boehme, Lars ^b   Meredith, Michael P ^c,d   Laidre, Kristin L ^e   Heide Jørgensen, Mads Peter ^f   Kovacs, Kit M ^g   Lydersen, Christian ^g   Davidson, Fraser J M ^h   Stenson, Garry B ^h   Hammill, Mike O ^h   Marsh, Robert ⁱ   Coward, Andrew C ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^g NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^h FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Greenland Shelf; Observations; Ocean temperature; Sea Mammals; Seasonal Cycle; Trajectory analysis

Indexed keywords

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MAMMALS;

GREENLAND; OBSERVATIONS; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL CYCLE; TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ADVECTION; FLOATING ICE; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; MELTING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHELF BREAK; SUBDUCTION ZONE; WATER LEVEL; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84921539279     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062051     Document Type: Article

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