Low-frequency thermohaline variability in the Subtropical South Atlantic pycnocline during 2002-2013

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 6468-6475

  Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas ^a   Reverdin, Gilles ^a   Gaillard, Fabienne ^b   Lazar, Alban ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Aguhlas leakage; Argo data; South Atlantic gyre; thermohaline interannual variability; vertical mixing; water masses propagation

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; MIXING; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

ARGO DATA; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SOUTH ATLANTIC; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER MASS;

OCEAN HABITATS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DATA SET; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; PYCNOCLINE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL);

EID: 84911384154     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061160     Document Type: Article

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