Impact of tropical Pacific variability on the mean North Atlantic thermohaline circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Semenov, Vladimir A ^a,b   Latif, Mojib ^a  

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

^b OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARINE APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (MOC); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SST); THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33845663565     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026237     Document Type: Article

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