Ocean dynamics and the nature of air-sea interactions over the North Atlantic at decadal time scales

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 982-995

  Park, W ^a   Latif, M ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ATMOSPHERICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM); GROWTH RATE; OCEAN DYNAMICS; TIME SCALE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

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

EID: 17744389190     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-3307.1     Document Type: Article

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