North Atlantic subtropical mode water: A history of ocean-atmosphere interaction 1961-2000

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Kwon, Young Oh ^a,b   Riser, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

1635 Global Change: Oceans (4203); 4215 Oceanography: General: Climate and interannual variability (3309); 4283 Oceanography: General: Water masses; 4504 Oceanography: Physical: Air sea interactions (0312); 4572 Oceanography: Physical: Upper ocean processes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; OCEAN TIME; WATER MASS VOLUME; WINTERTIME FORCING;

WATER;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; MODE WATER; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 11044233905     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021116     Document Type: Article

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