Convective Chimneys and Plumes in the Northern Greenland Sea

The Nordic Seas: An Integrated Perspective: Oceanography, Climatology, Biogeochemistry, and Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 251-272

  Johannessen, Ola M ^a,b,c   Lygre, Kjetil ^a   Eldevik, Tor ^a,d  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c Mohn Sverdrup Center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography   (Norway)

^d BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climatic changes Arctic regions; Ocean atmosphere interaction Arctic regions; Oceanography Arctic regions

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CONVECTIVE PLUME; DENSITY ANOMALIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN;

CHIMNEYS;

EID: 84952782069     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/158GM17     Document Type: Chapter

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