The arrival of a «new» Labrador Sea Water signal in the tropical Atlantic in 1996

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 15, 2002, Pages

  Freudenthal, Sébastien ^a   Andrié, Chantal ^a  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEAWATER;

CONVECTION PROCESS; DIRECT CURRENT MEASUREMENT; FRENCH GUIANA; LABRADOR BASIN; LABRADOR SEA; LABRADOR SEA WATERS; TRANSIT TIME; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

TROPICS;

EID: 0036705380     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015062     Document Type: Article

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