Interannual to decadal Gulf Stream variability in an eddy-resolving ocean model

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 209-219

  Sasaki, Yoshi N ^a   Schneider, Niklas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Gulf Stream; North Atlantic Oscillation; Thin jet

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FLUCTUATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC VARIATIONS; DOWNSTREAM REGION; EDDY ACTIVITY; GULF STREAM; HINDCASTS; INTERANNUAL; JET AXIS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OCEAN MODEL; PHASE SPEED; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES; THIN-JET; TIME-SCALES; WIND FLUCTUATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EDDY; JET STREAM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF STREAM;

EID: 80051470930     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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