Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and conductivity-temperature-depth data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Han, Guoqi ^a   Ohashi, Kyoko ^a   Chen, Nancy ^a   Myers, Paul G ^b   Nunes, Nuno ^c   Fischer, Jürgen ^c  

^a NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ECOSYSTEMS; MONITORING;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BAROTROPIC; BOUNDARY CURRENTS; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; CONDUCTIVITY-TEMPERATURE-DEPTH DATUM; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; CTD DATA; CURRENT METERS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; DIRECT CURRENT MEASUREMENT; FAST RESPONSE; HAMILTONS; LABRADOR CURRENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MODEL-BASED; MULTIYEAR CHANGES; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; REGIONAL CIRCULATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SUBPOLAR GYRES; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BAROTROPIC WAVE; BOUNDARY CURRENT; CONDUCTIVITY; GYRE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MONITORING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER DEPTH; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR CURRENT; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 78650029676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC006091     Document Type: Article

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