Estimates of global ocean volume transports during 1960 through 2001

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Weiqiang ^a   Köhl, Armin ^a   Stammer, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTICA; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL TIME; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; LONG-TERM TREND; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN CIRCULATION; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77955476077     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043949     Document Type: Article

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