Baffin Island and West Greenland Current Systems in northern Baffin Bay

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 132, Issue , 2015, Pages 305-317

  Münchow, Andreas ^a   Falkner, Kelly K ^b   Melling, Humfrey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Baffin Bay; Circulation; Geostrophy; Greenland

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BOILER CIRCULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; HYDROLOGY; NAVIGATION; SURVEYS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; ARCTIC; BAFFIN BAY; BAROCLINIC CIRCULATION; GEOSTROPHY; GREENLAND; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION INDICES; WEST GREENLAND CURRENTS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 84925291958     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2014.04.001     Document Type: Article

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