for contributing invaluable data analysis routines;
A. Fischer, G. Brown and the WHOI graphics
department for producing Figure 7.3.4; T. Joyce,
P. Robbins, R. Millard, B. Warren, N. Fofonoff,
C. Frankignoul, J. Pedlosky, and seminar attendees
at the AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, WHOI, URI,
MIT, Lamont and GFDL for useful discussions;
and R. Pickart, G. Eshel, R. Schmitt, H. Bryden
and T. Haine for improvements to the text. BA
was supported by a fellowship from the US Office
of Naval Research while this research was undertaken. Shiro Imawaki gratefully acknowledges the
assistance of Dr Hiroshi Uchida of Japan Science
and Technology Corporation (JST) in the computation and graphics of Kuroshio transport. Igor
Yashayaev gratefully acknowledges the help of
Allyn Clarke and John Lazier in compiling the historic and WOCE hydrographic data used in the
studies of interannual to decadal variability in the
Labrador Sea (Fig. 7.3.6). Ruth Curry and Mike
McCartney, WHOI, Martin Visbeck of LDEO and
Monika Rhein of Institut für Ostseeforschung,
Warnemunde, and Jamie Morison, Applied Physics
Laboratory, University of Washington kindly
permitted the use of key figures still in press (our
Figs 7.3.7, 7.3.8c and 7.3.9).
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