Variability of sea surface height and circulation in the North Atlantic: Forcing mechanisms and linkages

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 132, Issue , 2015, Pages 273-286

  Wang, Zeliang ^a   Lu, Youyu ^a   Dupont, Frederic ^b   Loder, John W ^a   Hannah, Charles ^a   Wright, Daniel G ^a  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; HEAT FLUX; MOMENTUM; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SURFACE WATERS;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; GLOBAL OCEAN MODEL; STRONG CORRELATION; SUBTROPICAL REGIONS; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; WINTER NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84925291186     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.11.004     Document Type: Article

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