On the nature of temporal variability of the gulf stream path from 75º to 55ºW

Earth Interactions

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1-17

  Gangopadhyay, Avijit ^a   Chaudhuri, Ayan H ^b   Taylor, Arnold H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Atmosphere ocean structure phenomena; Circulation dynamics; North atlantic oscillation; Ocean circulation; Ocean dynamics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY CHANGES; LOW-FREQUENCY RESPONSE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 84962048116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI-D-15-0025.1     Document Type: Article

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