Fast teleconnections to the tropical Atlantic sector from Atlantic thermohaline adjustment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Chiang, John C H ^a   Cheng, Wei ^b   Bitz, Cecilia M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; MECHANISMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; SURFACES;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; ATLANTIC; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (AMOC); BAROCLINIC; COUPLED MODELING; EVAPORATIVE COOLING (EC); HIGH TO LOW; LATITUDE (CO); NORTH ATLANTIC (NA); OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; SUBPOLAR GYRES; SURFACE CLIMATE; TELECONNECTION; TELECONNECTION MECHANISMS; TELECONNECTIONS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; TROPICAL COOLING; TROPICAL NORTH ATLANTIC;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE EFFECT; COOLING; GYRE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; TELECONNECTION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 45549094028     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033292     Document Type: Article

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