Zonally asymmetric response of the Southern Ocean mixed-layer depth to the Southern Annular Mode

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 273-279

  Sallee J B ^a   Speer, K G ^b   Rintoul, S R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL CYCLE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GROWTH RATE; HEAT FLUX; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER DEPTH; WIND FORCING; ZONAL FLOW;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77950537128     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo812     Document Type: Article

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