Recent wind-driven variability in atlantic water mass distribution and meridional overturning circulation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 633-647

  Evans, Dafydd Gwyn ^a   Toole, John ^b   Forget, Gael ^c   Zika, Jan D ^d   Garabato, Alberto C Naveira ^a   George Nurser, A J ^e   Yu, Lisan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; DIGITAL STORAGE; TROPICS;

ADIABATIC PROCESS; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; HYDROGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC SUBTROPICAL GYRES; THERMOCLINE DEPTH; WATER MASS DISTRIBUTIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 85029328488     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-16-0089.1     Document Type: Article

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