Local and remote impacts of a tropical Atlantic salinity anomaly

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1133-1147

  Mignot, Juliette ^a   Frankignoul, Claude ^a  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE EFFECT; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; EVAPORATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; SALINITY; TROPOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 78649325555     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0621-9     Document Type: Article

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