Northern North Atlantic sea surface height and ocean heat content variability

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3670-3678

  Häkkinen, Sirpa ^a   Rhines, Peter B ^b   Worthen, Denise L ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

multidecadal variability; ocean heat content; sea surface height

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT;

ENTHALPY;

ADVECTION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GYRE; HEAT BALANCE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); IRMINGER SEA; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84885146605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20268     Document Type: Article

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