Response of freshwater flux and sea surface salinity to variability of the atlantic warm pool

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1249-1267

  Wang, Chunzai ^a   Zhang, Liping ^a,b,c   Lee, Sang Ki ^a,b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CENTRAL AMERICA; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; FRESHWATER FLUXES; MOISTURE BUDGET; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; MULTI-DECADAL TIME SCALE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

LAKES; LASERS; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; THERMODYNAMICS;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MOISTURE TRANSFER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; WARM POOL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CENTRAL AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84874901754     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00284.1     Document Type: Article

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