Variability of the directly observed, middepth subpolar North Atlantic circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2700-2708

  Palter, Jaime B ^a,b   Caron, Charles André ^b   Law, Kara Lavender ^c   Willis, Joshua K ^d   Trossman, David S ^b,e,f   Yashayaev, Igor M ^g   Gilbert, Denis ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Sea Education Association   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^h MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Argo; boundary currents; decadal variability; ocean circulation; profiling floats; subpolar North Atlantic

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; OCEAN CURRENTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARGO; BOUNDARY CURRENTS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PROFILING FLOAT; SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ARGO; BATHYMETRY; BOUNDARY CURRENT; DECADAL VARIATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PROFILER; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT;

EID: 84977950774     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067235     Document Type: Article

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