Global and hemispheric climate variations affecting the Southern Ocean

Antarctic Science

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 401-413

  Simmonds, Ian ^a   King, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air sea fluxes; Atmosphere ocean kinetic energy transfer; Extratropical cyclones; Freshwater budget; Pacific South American pattern; Southern Annular Mode

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 10944228912     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102004002226     Document Type: Article

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