Variability of the Lower Circumpolar Deep Water in Drake Passage 1926-2004

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Williams, Adam ^a   Bacon, Sheldon ^a   Cunningham, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ANTRACTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT (ACC); DECADAL CHANGES; LOWER CIRCUMPOLAR DEEP WATER (LCDW);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DECADAL VARIATION; DEEP WATER; OVERTURN;

DRAKE PASSAGE;

EID: 33645804641     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024226     Document Type: Article

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