The Southern Ocean as a source region for tropical Atlantic variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 3960-3972

  Hickey, Hannah ^a   Weaver, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SURFACES; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; WATER; WIND;

FRESHWATER; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WIND FORCINGS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ADVECTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); OCEANIC REGIONS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 8744285311     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<3960:TSOAAS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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