Heaving modes in the world oceans

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 11-12, 2015, Pages 3563-3591

  Huang, Rui Xin ^a,b  

^a State Key Laboratory of Oceanography in the Tropics   (China)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic motions; Baroclinic modes of heating content anomaly; Climate variability of heat content; Heaving; Southern oceans; Subtropical and subpolar gyres; Wind driven circulation

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC LAPSE RATE; BAROCLINIC MODE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GYRE; HEATING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84947493822     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2557-6     Document Type: Article

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