Possible predictability in overflow from the Denmark Strait

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6716, 1999, Pages 243-246

  Dickson, Bob ^a   Meincke, Jens ^b   Vassie, Ian ^c   Jungclaus, Johann ^d   Østerhus, Svein ^e  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences   (United Kingdom)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VELOCITY; DEEP WATER VENTILATION; ECHO SOUNDING; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COLD CLIMATE; DENMARK; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WARMING; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033590458     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16680     Document Type: Article

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