Frontal movements and property fluxes: Contributions to heat and freshwater trends in the Southern Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Meijers, A J S ^a   Bindoff, N L ^a,b,c,d   Rintoul, S R ^a,b,c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ADIABATIC COMPONENTS; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; DIABATIC; GRAVEST EMPIRICAL MODES; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SYNOPTIC VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL TRENDS; WATER MASS; WATER MASS STRUCTURE;

NAVIGATION;

ADIABATIC PROCESS; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; COOLING; DIABATIC PROCESS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FRONTAL FEATURE; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER MASS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 80052050412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006832     Document Type: Article

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