Importance of heat transport and local air-sea heat fluxes for Barents Sea climate variability

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Sando A B ^a,b   Nilsen, J E O ^b,c   Gao, Y ^b,c,d   Lohmann, K ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^d Nansen Zhu International Research Centre   (China)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES;

AIR-SEA HEAT FLUX; BARENTS SEA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL TIMESCALE; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; HEAT TRANSPORT; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS; NET HEAT FLUX; NORDIC SEAS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN MODEL; OCEANIC HEAT CONTENTS; SOLAR HEAT; TIME LAG;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT TRANSFER; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; MODEL TEST; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; TIME SERIES;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 77955223684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005884     Document Type: Article

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