Trends and Variability of Sea Surface Temperature in the Northwest Atlantic from Three Historical Gridded Datasets

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 510-528

  Loder, John W ^a   Wang, Zeliang ^a  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atlantic Multi decadal Oscillation; decadal scale variability; North Atlantic; North Atlantic Oscillation; ocean climate trends; sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DECADAL VARIATION; HADLEY CELL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ATLANTIC COAST [CANADA]; ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CANADA;

EID: 84952298746     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: 14809214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07055900.2015.1071237     Document Type: Article

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