Heat budget in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre: Impacts of atmospheric weather regimes on the 1995 warming event

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 130, Issue , 2015, Pages 75-90

  Barrier, Nicolas ^a   Deshayes, Julie ^a,b   Treguier, Anne Marie ^a   Cassou, Christophe ^c  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c CERFACS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT BUDGET; NORTH ATLANTIC; SUBPOLAR GYRES; WEATHER REGIMES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; GYRE; HEAT BUDGET; HINDCASTING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; WARMING; WATER MASS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; REYKJANES RIDGE;

EID: 84920555129     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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