The Mean Sea Level Pressure Gradient Across the Denmark Strait as an Indicator of Conditions in the North Icelandic Irminger Current

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 65-71

  Blindheim, Johan ^a,b   Malmberg, Svend Aage ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

ARCTIC REGIONS; DENMARK STRAIT; ICELANDIC SHELVES; ICELANDICS; IRMINGER CURRENTS; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; MOVING AVERAGES; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

SEA LEVEL;

EID: 84952786585     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/158GM06     Document Type: Chapter

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