On the mechanisms behind decadal heat content changes in the eastern subpolar gyre

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 132, Issue , 2015, Pages 262-272

  Desbruyères, Damien ^a   Mercier, Herlé ^a   Thierry, Virginie ^a  

^a IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY;

DECADAL VARIABILITY; IMPACT OF TEMPERATURES; INTEGRATED EFFECTS; LAGRANGIAN EXPERIMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENTS; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ENTHALPY;

EID: 84925291067     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2014.02.005     Document Type: Article

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