Meridional displacement of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2019, 2014, Pages

  Gille, Sarah T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Climate change; Southern Annular Mode; Wind forcing

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; EDDY HEAT TRANSPORT; FRONTAL DISPLACEMENT; MERIDIONAL DISPLACEMENTS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; WIND FORCING;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 84903591914     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0273     Document Type: Article

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