Advection of north atlantic deep water from the labrador sea to the southern hemisphere

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2471-2487

  Rhein, Monika ^a   Kieke, Dagmar ^a   Steinfeldt, Reiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

anthropogenic tracers; Atlantic meridional overturning circulation; Deep Western Boundary Current; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic Ocean; water mass propagation

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CFC; CIRCULATION; DEEP WATER; GYRE; HOMOGENEITY; SEAWATER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRANSITION ZONE; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DENMARK STRAIT; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84929083905     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010605     Document Type: Article

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