On the currents and transports connected with the atlantic meridional overturning circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 502-516

  Xu, X ^a   Hurlburt, H E ^b   Schmitz, W J ^c   Zantopp, R ^d   Fischer, J ^d   Hogan, P J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; EDDY-RESOLVING SIMULATIONS; HYBRID COORDINATE OCEAN MODELS; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION INDICES; SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

DATABASE; HYDROGRAPHY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OVERTURN; SAMPLING; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GRAND BANKS; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84878931202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20065     Document Type: Article

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