Sensitivity of the thermohaline circulation in coupled oceanic GCM - Atmospheric EBM experiments

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 403-416

  Lohmann, Gerrit ^a   Gerdes, Rüdiger ^a   Chen, Deliang ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN COUPLING; ENERGY BALANCE; GCM; MODEL; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0030411262     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00211686     Document Type: Article

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