Geostrophic dynamics of meridional transport variability in the subpolar North Atlantic

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Bingham, R J ^a,b   Hughes, C W ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); FLOW OF WATER; METAL RECOVERY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODEL; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DENSITY CHANGE; DENSITY FIELDS; EARTH'S CLIMATE; GEOSTROPHIC DYNAMICS; GEOSTROPHY; HIGH FIDELITY; INTERANNUAL; LOCAL RESPONSE; MEAN FLOW; MEAN VELOCITIES; MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN MODEL; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; WESTERN BOUNDARY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77949383333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005492     Document Type: Article

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