Bidecadal sea level modes in the North and South Atlantic Oceans

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 5926-5931

  Vianna, Marcio L ^a   Menezes, Viviane V ^b,c  

^a VM Oceanica Ltda   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

Author keywords

AMOC fingerprints; interdecadal variability; regime shift; SODA; thermal Rossby waves; westward propagation

Indexed keywords

AMOC FINGERPRINTS; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; REGIME SHIFT; SODA; THERMAL ROSSBY WAVES;

MECHANICAL WAVES; TROPICS;

SEA LEVEL;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GYRE; OVERTURN; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84890511022     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058162     Document Type: Article

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