Response of a global coupled ocean-atmosphere-sea ice climate model to an imposed North Atlantic high-latitude freshening

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 929-948

  Cai, Wenju ^a   Syktus, Jozef ^a   Gordon, Hal B ^a   O'Farrell, Siobhan ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERE/ICE/OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELLING; FRESHWATER INPUT; HIGH-LATITUDE FRESHENING;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0023641531     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<0929:ROAGCO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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