Small rivers could have big impact on arctic ocean

Eos (United States)

Volumn 96, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 12-16

  Alkire, Matthew B ^a   Jacobson, Andrew D ^b   Lehn, Gregory O ^b   Macdonald, Robie W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN; RIVER;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84947918052     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: 23249250     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2015eo034005     Document Type: Article

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