Exchange of warming deep waters across Fram Strait

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 103, Issue , 2015, Pages 86-100

  von Appen, Wilken Jon ^a   Schauer, Ursula ^a   Somavilla, Raquel ^a,c   Bauerfeind, Eduard ^a   Beszczynska Möller, Agnieszka ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bottom water warming; Eurasian Basin Deep Water; Fram Strait; Greenland Sea Deep Water; Oceanic sill

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM-WATER WARMING; DEEP WATER; DEEP WATER EXCHANGE; FRAM STRAIT; MEASURED TEMPERATURES; MESOSCALE VARIABILITY; NORWEGIAN SEA DEEP WATERS; OCEANIC SILL;

MIXING;

DEEP WATER; MESOSCALE EDDY; MOORING SYSTEM; SILL; STRAIT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VELOCITY; WARMING; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIAN BASIN; FRAM STRAIT; GREENLAND; NORWEGIAN SEA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84936802229     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2015.06.003     Document Type: Article

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