On the mechanism of interannual variability of the Irminger Water in the Labrador Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Zhu, J ^a   Demirov, E ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL MEAN; ANTI-SYMMETRIC; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; ATMOSPHERIC VARIATIONS; BAROTROPIC; DECADAL TIMESCALE; DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LABRADOR SEA; MINIMUM VALUE; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODEL SIMULATION; NAO INDEX; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NCEP/NCAR; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENTS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN RESPONSE; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; STREAMFUNCTIONS; SUBPOLAR GYRES; THREE MODELS; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER TEMPERATURES;

EXPERIMENTS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRMINGER SEA; LABRADOR SEA; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT;

EID: 79952463248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005677     Document Type: Article

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