Decadal variability in the outflow from the Nordic seas to the deep Atlantic Ocean

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6696, 1998, Pages 871-874

  Bacon, Sheldon ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OVERTURN; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COLD CLIMATE; FLOW RATE; GREENLAND; ICELAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032572690     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29736     Document Type: Article

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