Inverse solution for pentadal variability in the North Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Sidorenko, Dmitry ^a   Danilov, Sergey ^a   Schröter, Jens ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STORMS;

MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING STREAMFUNCTION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PENTADAL VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; CYCLONE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GYRE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SALINITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 40849105001     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032463     Document Type: Article

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