Directly measured mid-depth circulation in the northeastern North Atlantic Ocean

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6907, 2002, Pages 603-607

  Bower, A S ^a   Le Cann, B ^b   Rossby, T ^c   Zenk, W ^d   Gould, J ^e   Speer, K ^f   Richardson, P L ^a   Prater, M D ^c   Zhang, H M ^c,g  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

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

^e NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^f FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; SALINE WATER; SATELLITES;

SEA FLOOR TOPOGRAPHY;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

SEA WATER;

GLOBAL CLIMATE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WATER MASS;

ARTICLE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LATITUDE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037057704     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01078     Document Type: Article

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