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The polar oceans and their role in shaping the global environment : the Nansen centennial volume /

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Corporate Author: Nansen Centennial Symposium
Other Authors: Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930, Johannessen, Ola M., Muench, Robin D., Overland, James E.
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC, USA : American Geophysical Union, ©1994.
Series:Geophysical monograph ; 85.
Subjects:
Arctic Ocean > Congresses.
Antarctic Ocean > Congresses.
Climatic changes > Congresses.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Fridtjof Nansen
  • scientist, diplomat and humanist / T. Gjelsvik
  • The Arctic Ocean and climate : a perspective / K. Aagaard and E.C. Carmack
  • A review of coupled ice-ocean models / G.L. Mellor and S. Häkkinen
  • On the intermediate depth waters of the Arctic Ocean / B. Rudels [and others]
  • Nutrient-based tracers in the western Arctic : a new lower halocine water defined / D.K. Salmon and C.P. McRoy
  • The potential of barium as a tracer of arctic water masses / K.K. Falkner [and others]
  • The northern Barents Sea : water mass distribution and modification / S.L. Pfirman, D. Bauch and T. Gammelsrød
  • A study on the inflow of Atlantic water to the GIN Sea using GEOSAT altimeter data / P. Samuel, J.A. Johannessen and O.M. Johannessen
  • Observation and simulation of ice tongues and vortex pairs in the marginal ice zone / O.M. Johannessen [and others]
  • The Arctic Ocean tides / Z. Kowalik and A.Y. Proshutinsky
  • Distribution of water masses on the continental shelf in the southern Weddell Sea / T. Gammelsrød [and others]
  • ²²⁸Ra and ²²⁸Th in the Weddell Sea / M.M. Rutgers van der Loeff
  • Modelling the extent of sea ice ridging in the Weddell Sea / M. Harder and P. Lemke
  • Thermobaric convection / R.W. Garwood Jr., S.M. Isakari and P.C. Gallacher
  • Oceanic convection in the Greenland Sea Odden region as interpreted in satellite data / F.D. Carsey and A.T. Roach
  • Transport of biogenic particulate matter to depth within the Greenland Sea / T.O. Manley and W.O. Smith Jr.
  • Modelling of deep-sea gravity currents using an integrated plume model / G. Alendal, H. Drange and P.M. Haugan
  • Net primary production and stratification in the ocean / T. Platt [and others]
  • Distribution of dissolved inorganic and organic carbon in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean / L.G. Anderson, K. Olsson and A. Skoog
  • Primary productivity of a Phaeocystis bloom in the Greenland Sea during spring, 1989 / W.O. Smith
  • Air-sea CO₂ fluxes in the Southern Ocean between 25° E and 85° E / A. Poisson [and others]
  • Arctic structural evolution : relationship to paleoceanography / G.L. Johnson, J. Pogrebitsky and R. Macnab
  • Mid-Pleistocene climate shift
  • the Nansen connection / W.H. Berger and E. Jansen
  • Variability of the atmospheric energy flux across 70° N computed from the GFDL data set / J.E. Overland and P. Turet
  • The influence of polar oceans on interannual climate variations / G. Alekseev
  • Sea ice thickness changes and their relation to climate / P. Wadhams
  • Variability in sea-ice thickness over the North Pole from 1958 to 1992 / A.S. McLaren [and others]
  • On the required accuracy of atmospheric forcing fields for driving dynamic-thermodynamic sea ice models / H. Fischer and P. Lemke
  • On the effect of ocean circulation on Arctic ice-margin variations / W.D. Hibler III and J. Zhang
  • On the surface heat fluxes in the Weddell Sea / J. Launiainen and T. Vihma
  • Southern Ocean wave fields during the austral winters, 1985-1988, by GEOSAT radar altimeter / W.J. Campbell, E.G. Josberger and N.M. Mognard
  • Factors affecting variations of snow surface temperature and air temperature over sea ice in winter / P.S. Guest and K.L. Davidson
  • Aircraft measured atmospheric momentum, heat and radiation fluxes over Arctic Sea ice / J. Hartmann [and others]
  • Opening and closing of the Husky 1 lead complex / R.W. Fett, K.L. Davidson and J.E. Overland
  • Polynyas as a possible source for enigmatic Bennett Island atmospheric plumes / D. Dethleff
  • Interannual variability of the thermohaline structure in the convective gyre of the Greenland Sea / G.V. Alekseev, V.V. Ivanov and A.A. Korablev
  • Microwave remote sensing of the snow and ice cover : the Russian experience / K.Y. Kondratyev and V.V. Melentyev
  • Short- and long-term temporal behavior of polar sea ice covers from satellite passive-microwave observations / W.J. Campbell, P. Gloersen and H.J. Zwally
  • Acoustic remote sensing / W.H. Munk
  • Closing note : a tribute to Fridtjof Nansen / N. Untersteiner.