A possible mechanism for the strong weakening of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre in the mid-1990s

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Lohmann, Katja ^a,b,c   Drange, Helge ^a,b,d   Bentsen, Mats ^a,b  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABRUPT CHANGE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; NEGATIVE VALUES; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN STATE; REANALYSIS; SUBPOLAR GYRES; TIME PERIODS;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

GYRE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 70350014991     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039166     Document Type: Article

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