Marine biogeochemical responses to the North Atlantic Oscillation in a coupled climate model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Patara, Lavinia ^a,b   Visbeck, Martin ^b   Masina, Simona ^a,c   Krahmann, Gerd ^b   Vichi, Marcello ^a,c  

^a CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

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

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; NUTRIENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME MEASUREMENT; USER INTERFACES; WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL RESPONSE; CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODELS; DECADAL TIMESCALE; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; DOMINANT MODE; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; MOMENTUM FLUX; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENTS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT LIMITATIONS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL MIXING; WIND STRESS CURL;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE MODELING; GROWTH RATE; HEAT FLUX; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOMENTUM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; TIMESCALE; VERTICAL MIXING; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79961238401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006785     Document Type: Article

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