Variability of Subantarctic Mode Water and Antarctic Intermediate Water in the Drake Passage during the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 3661-3688

  Naveira Garabato, Alberto C ^a   Jullion, Loïc ^b   Stevens, David P ^b   Heywood, Karen J ^b   King, Brian A ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; DRAKE PASSAGE; INTER-DECADAL PACIFIC OSCILLATIONS; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERDECADAL; MERIDIONAL WINDS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SEA ICE MELTING; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL PROXIMITY; STRONG WINDS; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER; TIME-SCALE; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES; WATER MASS; WATER PROPERTIES; WINTER SEA ICES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERICS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; FEEDBACK; HEAT FLUX; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; TIME SERIES; VENTILATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EVAPORATION; HEAT FLUX; OVERTURN; SUBANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WIND FORCING;

BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA; DRAKE PASSAGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 67749139957     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2621.1     Document Type: Article

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