Using a CFC effective age to estimate propagation and storage of climate anomalies in the deep western North Atlantic Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Fine, Rana A ^a   Rhein, Monika ^b   Andrié, Chantal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE GASES;

BUFFERING EFFECT; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; RECIRCULATION GYRE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037728721     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015618     Document Type: Article

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