Emerging impact of Greenland meltwater on deepwater formation in the North Atlantic Ocean

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 523-527

  Böning, Claus W ^a   Behrens, Erik ^a,b   Biastoch, Arne ^a   Getzlaff, Klaus ^a   Bamber, Jonathan L ^c  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; DEEP WATER FORMATION; EDDY; FRESHWATER INPUT; GLOBAL OCEAN; MELTWATER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; RECONSTRUCTION; WATER BUDGET;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; LABRADOR SEA; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 84976909137     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2740     Document Type: Article

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