Multidecadal warming and shoaling of antarctic intermediate water

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 207-221

  Schmidtko, Sunke ^a   Johnson, Gregory C ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intermediate waters; Multidecadal variability; Southern Ocean; Trends

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONDUCTIVITY TEMPERATURE DEPTHS; CORE POTENTIAL; CTD PROFILES; DENSITY REDUCTION; HISTORICAL RECORDS; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN BASINS; POTENTIAL DENSITY; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; PROFILE DATA; SALINITY TRENDS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TEMPORAL PROPERTY; TRENDS; WATER MASS;

BOTTLES; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; ARGO; CLIMATOLOGY; DECADAL VARIATION; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT; SHOALING WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84856956129     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00021.1     Document Type: Article

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