Regional Oceanography. Weddell Sea Ocean Circulation Patterns.

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Regional Oceanography

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Weddell Sea

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Ocean Circulation Patterns

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Temperature and currents in the Warm Deep Water of the Weddell Sea derived from profiling float data

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Southern Annular Mode

NAM

Circumpolar mode; variation in surface pressure and hence in westerly and polar easterly wind strength

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SLP/SAM

SLP/ENSOSLA/ENSO

SLA/SAM

Sallée et al. - Response of the ACC to atmospheric variability -

Southern Ocean Indices: The ACC system

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http://woceatlas.tamu.edu/sassi/

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