Changes in the ocean transport through Drake Passage during the 1980s and 1990s, forced by changes in the Southern Annular Mode

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Meredith, Michael P ^a   Woodworth, Philip L ^a   Hughes, Chris W ^a   Stepanov, Vladimir ^a  

^a Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1635 Global Change: Oceans (4203); 4207 Oceanography: General: Arctic and Antarctic oceanography; 4215 Oceanography: General: Climate and interannual variability (3309); 4532 Oceanography: Physical: General circulation; 4556 Oceanography: Physical: Sea level variations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TIDE GAGES; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATE; OCEAN TRANSPORT; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE (SAM); SUBSURFACE PRESSURE;

WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

MODE WATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

DRAKE PASSAGE; WORLD;

ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATE; BOTTOM PRESSURES; LARGE-SCALE OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; LONG TERM CHANGE; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN TRANSPORTS; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; WESTERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA;

EID: 13244291623     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021169     Document Type: Article

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