Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowdown cooled the subtropical ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 6202-6207

  Cunningham, Stuart A ^a,b   Roberts, Christopher D ^c   Frajka Williams, Eleanor ^b   Johns, William E ^d   Hobbs, Will ^e   Palmer, Matthew D ^c   Rayner, Darren ^b   Smeed, David A ^b   McCarthy, Gerard ^b  

^a SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation; Atlantic Ocean heat transport; Atlantic subtropical gyre; ocean heat content; ocean observing system; RAPID mooring array

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS; RAPID MOORING ARRAY; SUBTROPICAL GYRE;

COOLING; ENTHALPY; TROPICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; COOLING; GYRE; HEAT TRANSFER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL);

EID: 84889971677     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058464     Document Type: Article

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