Rapid ocean wave teleconnections linking Antarctic salinity anomalies to the equatorial ocean-atmosphere system

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Atkinson, C P ^a   Wells, N C ^a   Blaker, A T ^a   Sinha, B ^a   Ivchenko, V O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; AMUNDSEN SEA; BAROCLINIC; BAROTROPIC; BAROTROPIC KINETIC ENERGY; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; EASTERN PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; INDONESIA; KELVIN WAVES; OCEAN WAVES; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SST ANOMALIES; TELECONNECTIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; WATER WAVES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANOMALY; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BAROCLINIC WAVE; CLIMATE MODELING; KELVIN WAVE; KINETIC ENERGY; OCEAN WAVE; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ASIA; BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 67449126603     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036976     Document Type: Article

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