A coastal upwelling seesaw in the Atlantic Ocean as a result of the closure of the Central American Seaway

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Prange, M ^a   Schulz, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

1620 Global Change: Climate dynamics (3309); 3339 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Ocean atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504); 4255 Oceanography: General: Numerical modeling; 4267 Oceanography: General: Paleoceanography; 4279 Oceanography: General: Upwelling and convergences

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEATING; OCEAN HABITATS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; CLIMATE MODELS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; COASTAL ZONES; HEAT TRANSFER;

INTENSIFICATION; UPWELLING SEESAW;

COASTAL ZONES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL WATER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ANTIPHASE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COASTAL UPWELLING; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; NORTH ATLANTIC; PLIOCENE CLOSURE;

EID: 9744237210     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020073     Document Type: Article

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