Seasonal to interannual variability in density around the Canary Islands and their influence on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 26°N

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1843-1860

  Duchez, Aurélie ^a   Frajka Williams, Eleanor ^a   Castro, Natalia ^a   Hirschi, Joël ^a   Coward, Andrew ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC); Canary Islands; density fluctuations; Physical oceanography; Seasonal interannual variability; Wind Stress Curl (WSC)

Indexed keywords

TIME MEASUREMENT;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CANARY ISLANDS; DENSITY FLUCTUATION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND STRESS CURL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOUNDARY CURRENT; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMOCLINE; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WIND STRESS;

CANARY ISLANDS; SPAIN;

EID: 84900365313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009416     Document Type: Article

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