North Atlantic sea surface temperatures and their relation to the North Atlantic Oscillation during the last 230 years

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 533-543

  Miettinen, Arto ^a   Koç, Nalan ^a,b   Hall, Ian R ^c   Godtliebsen, Fred ^b   Divine, Dmitry ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diatoms; Great salinity anomaly (GSA); North Atlantic; Reykjanes Ridge; Sea surface temperature (SST); The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; DIATOM; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); REYKJANES RIDGE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 79551596436     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0791-5     Document Type: Article

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