A new collective view of oceanography of the Arctic and North Atlantic basins

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 132, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-21

  Yashayaev, Igor ^a   Seidov, Dan ^b   Demirov, Entcho ^c  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE MONITORING; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HYDROGRAPHIC CONDITIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC; TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS; WINTER CONVECTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84925306959     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2014.12.012     Document Type: Editorial

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