Tide-mediated warming of Arctic halocline by Atlantic heat fluxes over rough topography

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 191-194

  Rippeth, Tom P ^a   Lincoln, Ben J ^a   Lenn, Yueng Djern ^a   Green, J A Mattias ^a   Sundfjord, Arild ^b   Bacon, Sheldon ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DOUBLE DIFFUSION; HALOCLINE; HEAT FLUX; INFLOW; MICROSTRUCTURE; OCEAN TIDE; TOPOGRAPHY; VERTICAL MIXING;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84923933629     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2350     Document Type: Article

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