Is there a north-south phase shift in the surface Labrador Current transport on the interannual-to-decadal scale?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 276-287

  Han, Guoqi ^a   Chen, Nancy ^a   Ma, Zhimin ^a  

^a NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ECOSYSTEMS; PHASE SHIFT;

DECADAL VARIABILITY; LABRADOR CURRENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NORTH ATLANTIC; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY DATA; SUBPOLAR GYRES; UNDERLYING DYNAMICS; WINTER NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION;

PHASE SHIFTERS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; GYRE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WATER DEPTH; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); LABRADOR CURRENT;

EID: 84898930246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009102     Document Type: Article

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