Oceanic transport of subpolar climate signals to mid-depth subtropical waters

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6667, 1998, Pages 575-577

  Curry, Ruth G ^a   McCartney, Michael S ^a   Joyce, Terrence M ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR/SEA INTERACTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BERMUDA; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032484899     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35356     Document Type: Article

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