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The polar oceans and their role in shaping the global environment : the Nansen centennial volume / O.M. Johannessen, R.D. Muench, J.E. Overland, editors.

Contributor(s): Series: Geophysical monograph ; 85.Publication details: Washington, DC, USA : American Geophysical Union, ©1994.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 525 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118663882
  • 1118663888
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleLOC classification:
  • GC401 .P637 1994
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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