Surprisingly rapid spreading of newly formed intermediate waters across the North Atlantic Ocean

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6626, 1997, Pages 675-679

  Sy, Alexander ^a   Rheint, Monika ^b   Lazier, John R N ^c   Koltermann, Klaus Peter ^a   Meincke, Jens ^d   Putzka, Alfred ^e   Bersch, Manfred ^d  

^a FEDERAL MARITIME AND HYDROGRAPHIC AGENCY   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACE WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA; TEMPERATURE;

INTERMEDIATE WATER MASSES; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OUTFLOW WATERS; RECENT SPREADING;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH); LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 0030620716     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386675a0     Document Type: Review

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