Intense warming and salinification of intermediate waters of southern origin in the eastern subpolar North Atlantic in the 1990s to mid-2000s

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Sarafanov, Artem ^a   Falina, Anastasia ^a   Sokov, Alexey ^a   Demidov, Alexander ^b  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GLOBAL WARMING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE;

GYRE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SALINIZATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 61849095721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC004975     Document Type: Article

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