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Bottom Water Circulation in the Western North Atlantic
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Antarctic Bottom Water flows into the western North Atlantic across the equator, shifting from the western side to the eastern side of the trough between the American continents and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge as it continues ...
Ocean Gyre Circulation Changes Associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Observational evidence is presented for interannual to interdecadal variability in the intensity of the North Atlantic gyre circulation related to the atmospheric North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) patterns. A two-point ...
The Subpolar Mode Water of the North Atlantic Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The warm waters of the subtropical and subpolar basins of the North Atlantic have tight regional temperature-salinity relationships, and are conventionally called the regional ?Central Waters.? A volumetric census of the ...
Anomalous Anomalies in Averaged Hydrographic Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A comparison of a recently assembled hydrographic database for the North Atlantic with the Lovitus atlas shows striking differences in the vicinity of the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Current. On isopycnal surfaces ...