Coherent surface-subsurface fingerprint of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Zhang, Rong ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ALTIMETER DATUMS; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERE MODELS; DIPOLE PATTERNS; MULTIDECADAL VARIATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; SATELLITE ALTIMETER DATUMS; SUBPOLAR GYRES; SUBSURFACE OCEANS; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

ALTIMETER; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; GYRE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF STREAM;

EID: 58249088895     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035463     Document Type: Article

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