Antarctic Bottom Water temperature changes in the western South Atlantic from 1989 to 2014

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 8567-8577

  Johnson, Gregory C ^a   McTaggart, Kristene E ^a   Wanninkhof, Rik ^b  

^a NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

abyssal warming; Antarctic Bottom Water; Argentine Basin; Brazil Basin; ocean temperature; repeat hydrography

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL ZONE; BOTTOM WATER; GYRE; HYDROGRAPHY; POLYNYA; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARGENTINE BASIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); BRAZIL BASIN; SCOTIA SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; VEMA CHANNEL; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 84921445076     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010367     Document Type: Article

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