Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and the Southern Hemisphere supergyre

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Speich, Sabrina ^a,b   Blanke, Bruno ^a   Cai, Wenju ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIND;

HEMISPHERE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; SUBTROPICAL GYRES;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

GLOBAL OCEAN; GYRE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MODELING; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OVERTURN; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 39049083365     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031583     Document Type: Article

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