Warm and saline events embedded in the meridional circulation of the northern North Atlantic

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Häkkinen, Sirpa ^a   Rhines, Peter B ^b   Worthen, Denise L ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; TROPICS;

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATOLOGICAL WINDS; DENSITY SURFACES; EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; GULF STREAM; HIGH LATITUDES; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CELL; NEGATIVE PHASE; NORDIC SEAS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION INDICES; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; OCEAN RESPONSE; OCEAN STATE; POLAR FRONT; SUBPOLAR GYRES; SUBTROPICAL WATER; SURFACE DRIFTER; TRACER SIMULATIONS; TWO-LAYER CIRCULATION; WARM WATER; WIND STRESS CURL;

WIND STRESS;

ALTIMETRY; AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CIRCULATION MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAS EXCHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; GYRE; LATITUDE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALINITY; SALINIZATION; SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VELOCITY; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 79952162941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006275     Document Type: Article

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