No inter-gyre pathway for sea-surface temperature anomalies in the North Atlantic

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Foukal, Nicholas P ^a   Lozier, M Susan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

GYRE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ARTICLE; FLOW; GULF STREAM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEAN CURRENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

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

EID: 84964452518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11333     Document Type: Article

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