Meridional overturning transports at 7.5N and 24.5N in the Atlantic Ocean during 1992-93 and 2010-11

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 128, Issue , 2014, Pages 98-114

  Hernández Guerra, Alonso ^a   Pelegrí, Josep L ^b   Fraile Nuez, Eugenio ^c   Benítez Barrios, Verónica ^c   Emelianov, Mikhail ^b   Pérez Hernández, María Dolores ^a   Vélez Belchí, Pedro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c Santa Cruz de Tenerife   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; VELOCITY; WATER;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CONTINENTAL PLATFORMS; FRESHWATER TRANSPORTS; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; NORTH BRAZIL CURRENTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; HEAT TRANSFER; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LATITUDE; MASS TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXING; OVERTURN; TEMPORAL PERIOD; VELOCITY PROFILE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84907972252     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2014.08.016     Document Type: Article

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