Long-term coordinated changes in the convective activity of the North Atlantic

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 241-295

  Dickson, Robert ^a   Lazier, John ^b   Meincke, Jens ^c   Rhines, Peter ^d   Swift, James ^e  

^a DEFRA   (United Kingdom)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; LONG-TERM CHANGES; OCEANIC CONVECTION; WATER MASSES;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0030302515     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(97)00002-5     Document Type: Review

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