Decadal water mass variations along 20°W in the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 73, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 277-295

  Johnson, Gregory C ^a   Gruber, Nicolas ^b,c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dissolved oxygen; Eastern subpolar North Atlantic ocean; Heat storage; Ocean circulation; Ocean atmosphere system; Temporal variations; Water masses

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; HEAT FLUX; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

EASTERN SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS; WATER MASSES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DECADAL VARIATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GYRE; HEAT FLUX; HYDROGRAPHY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; WATER COLUMN; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); ICELAND;

EID: 34249682423     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2006.03.022     Document Type: Article

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