Observed interannual variability of the Florida current: Wind forcing and the North Atlantic Oscillation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 721-736

  DiNezio, Pedro N ^a   Gramer, Lewis J ^a   Johns, William E ^a   Meinen, Christopher S ^b   Baringer, Molly O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICORRELATION; BAROCLINIC; FLORIDA; FLORIDA CURRENT; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAG TIME; LONG TIME SERIES; LOW FREQUENCY; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PLANETARY WAVES; REANALYSIS; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORT VARIABILITY; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS CURL; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ELECTRIC CABLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION CABLES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

WIND STRESS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GYRE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); STRAITS OF FLORIDA;

EID: 67649995277     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO4001.1     Document Type: Article

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