Arctic mass, freshwater and heat fluxes: Methods and modelled seasonal variability

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 2052, 2015, Pages

  Bacon, Sheldon ^a   Aksenov, Yevgeny ^a   Fawcett, Stephen ^a   Madec, Gurvan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Arctic; Fluxes; Freshwater; Heat; Mass

Indexed keywords

FLUXES; HEATING; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; FRESHWATER; MASS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; TIME VARYING;

WATER;

EID: 84941247943     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0169     Document Type: Article

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