Atmospheric and oceanic freshwater transport during weak Atlantic overturning circulation

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 438-449

  Lohmann, Gerrit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; FRESHWATER INPUT; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0142059700     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0870.2003.00028.x     Document Type: Article

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