Arctic ocean water mass transformation in S-T coordinates

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1025-1050

  Pemberton, Per ^a,b   Nilsson, Johan ^a   Hieronymus, Magnus ^c   Markus Meier, H E ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic; Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Freshwater; Geographic location entity; Heat budgets fluxes; Physical Meteorology and Climatology

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; HEAT FLUX; MIXING; SEA ICE; WATER;

ARCTIC; FRESHWATER; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; GLOBAL OCEAN CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT BUDGETS/FLUXES; ISOTHERMAL SURFACES; TRANSFORMATION PATTERNS; WATER MASS TRANSFORMATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE FLUX; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84944069063     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0197.1     Document Type: Article

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