On the sub-decadal variability of South Atlantic Antarctic Intermediate Water

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  McCarthy, G D ^a   King, B A ^a   Cipollini, P ^a   McDonagh, E L ^a   Blundell, J R ^a   Biastoch, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INTERANNUAL; MODEL DATA; MODEL OUTPUTS; PLANETARY WAVES; SALINITY CHANGE; SOUTH ATLANTIC; TIME-SCALES;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ADVECTION; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; ARGO; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; LATITUDE; PLANETARY WAVE; TIMESCALE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AGULHAS CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84861350229     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051270     Document Type: Article

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