Intrinsic variability of the atlantic meridional overturning circulation at interannual-to-multidecadal time scales

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1929-1946

  Grégorio, Sandy ^a   Penduff, Thierry ^a   Sérazin, Guillaume ^a,b   Molines, Jean Marc ^a   Barnier, Bernard ^a   Hirschi, Joël ^c  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CERFACS   (France)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA ICE;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRINSIC VARIABILITIES; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; MERIDIONAL HEAT TRANSPORTS; MULTI-DECADAL TIME SCALE; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECADAL VARIATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEAN BASIN; OVERTURN; TIMESCALE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 84942775233     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0163.1     Document Type: Article

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