Greenland freshwater pathways in the sub-Arctic Seas from model experiments with passive tracers

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 877-907

  Dukhovskoy, Dmitry S ^a   Myers, Paul G ^b   Platov, Gennady ^c,d   Timmermans, Mary Louise ^e   Curry, Beth ^f   Proshutinsky, Andrey ^g   Bamber, Jonathan L ^h   Chassignet, Eric ^a   Hu, Xianmin ^b   Lee, Craig M ^f   Somavilla, Raquel ⁱ  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Baffin Bay; Greenland freshwater; Greenland Ice Sheet melting; Labrador Sea; Nordic Seas; sub Arctic seas; thermohaline circulation

Indexed keywords

FRESHWATER INPUT; ICE SHEET; MELTING; MELTWATER; SALINITY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TRACER; UPPER OCEAN;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84959534812     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JC011290     Document Type: Article

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