Examining a coupled climate model using CFC-11 as an ocean tracer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 1957-1960

  Dixon, Keith W ^a   Bullister, John L ^a   Gammon, Richard H ^b,c   Stouffer, Ronald J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE GASES; OCEANOGRAPHY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; MODEL PERFORMANCE; OCEAN VENTILATIONS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN LATITUDES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY;

CHLOROFLUOROCARBON DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL COUPLED AIR SEA MODEL;

AIR-SEA COUPLING; AIR/SEA COUPLED MODEL; CFC; CFC-11; CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL MODEL; OCEAN TRACER; OCEAN VENTILATION; TRACER TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0030199458     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01470     Document Type: Article

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