Freshwater teleconnections and ocean thermohaline circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Seidov, Dan ^a   Haupt, Bernd J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; POTABLE WATER; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEA LEVEL; CONVEYORS; SURFACE WATERS; WATER;

THERMOHALINES; COMBINED EFFECT; CRITICAL ELEMENTS; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL OCEAN CONVEYOR; OCEAN THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TELECONNECTIONS;

OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

FRESHWATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; TELECONNECTION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

EID: 0041689749     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016564     Document Type: Article

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