Variability of the meridional overtuning in the North Atlantic from the 50-year GECCO state estimation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1913-1930

  Köhl, Armin ^a   Stammer, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ADJOINT; DENMARK STRAIT OVERFLOWS; DENSITY ANOMALIES; DIFFERENT PROCESSES; EKMAN TRANSPORTS; ERROR BARS; LABRADOR SEAS; LONG TIMES; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGIES; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; ROSSBY WAVES; SUBTROPICAL GYRES; TIME SCALES; WATER MASSES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAROCLINIC MODE; CIRCULATION MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; EKMAN TRANSPORT; ESTIMATION METHOD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; ROSSBY WAVE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 45249100329     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3775.1     Document Type: Article

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