How do high-latitude North Atlantic climate signals the crossover between the Deep Western Boundary current and the Gulf stream?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Yang, Jiayan ^a   Joyce, Terrence M ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; WATER WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEAWATER; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CLIMATE SIGNALS; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEEP WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; LABRADOR SEA WATERS; TOPOGRAPHIC WAVES; TRANSIENT SIGNAL; WATER MASS TRANSPORT; WESTERN BOUNDARY; WIND DRIVEN GYRES;

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE SIGNAL; GYRE; WATER MASS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 0037590988     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015366     Document Type: Article

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