Investigation of variability of the North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water using profiling float data and numerical model output

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-85

  Peng, Ge ^a   Chassignet, Eric P ^a   Kwon, Young Oh ^b   Riser, Stephen C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; FLOAT TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA BUOY; MODE WATER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

PANULIRUS;

EID: 32544460088     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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