Global adjustment of the thermocline in response to deepwater formation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 759-762

  Huang, Rui X ^a   Cane, Mark A ^b   Naik, Naomi ^b   Goodman, Paul ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER FORMATION; THERMOCLINE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; MECHANICAL WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

DEEPWATER FORMATION; KELVIN WAVES; ROSSBY WAVES; SINGLE MODE MODEL;

OCEANOGRAPHY; STREAM FLOW;

DEEP-WATER FORMATION; KELVIN WAVES; OCEAN BASINS; ROSSBY WAVE; SINGLE-MODE MODELS; TIME-SCALES; WESTERN BOUNDARY; WORLD OCEAN;

EID: 0034353316     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL002365     Document Type: Article

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