The control of the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies on the position of the subtropical front

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5669-5675

  De Boer, Agatha M ^a   Graham, Robert M ^a   Thomas, Matthew D ^b   Kohfeld, Karen E ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Centre Bretagne   (France)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamical Subtropical Front; fronts; satellite data; Southern Ocean; Subtropical Front; wind stress curl

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DIGITAL STORAGE; OCEAN CURRENTS; WIND STRESS;

FRONTS; SATELLITE DATA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SUBTROPICAL FRONT; WIND STRESS CURL;

TROPICS;

BOTTOM PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FRONTAL FEATURE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GYRE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SALT; SATELLITE DATA; SEAFLOOR; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE; SURFACE WATER; TORQUE; WATER MASS; WESTERLY; WIND STRESS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84890281592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20407     Document Type: Article

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