A linkage between decadal climate variations in the labrador sea and the tropical atlantic ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1023-1026

  Yang, Jiayan ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPICS; SEAWATER; SURFACE WATERS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA; MERIDIONAL OVERTUNING CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRAPPED WAVE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA;

CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTALLY TRAPPED WAVES; DECADAL TIMESCALE; LABRADOR SEA WATERS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

EID: 0033560471     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900181     Document Type: Article

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