Global teleconnections of meridional overturning circulation anomalies

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1702-1722

  Johnson, Helen L ^a   Marshall, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLIMATOLOGY; LOW PASS FILTERS;

GLOBAL TELECONNECTIONS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (MOC);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANOMALY; DECADAL VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; TELECONNECTION;

EID: 4043098189     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<1702:GTOMOC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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