On the evolution of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Fingerprint and implications for decadal predictability in the North Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 5419-5426

  Zhang, Jinting ^a   Zhang, Rong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMOC fingerprint; decadal predictability; meridional heat transport

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; OCEAN CURRENTS;

AMOC FINGERPRINT; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CONVERGENCE/DIVERGENCE; DECADAL PREDICTABILITY; DECADAL PREDICTIONS; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; MERIDIONAL HEAT TRANSPORTS; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER FORMATIONS;

ADVECTION;

ADVECTION; GYRE; HEAT TRANSFER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PREDICTION; UPPER OCEAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF STREAM;

EID: 84938215408     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064596     Document Type: Article

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