Modelling teleconnections between the North Atlantic and North Pacific during the Younger Dryas

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6631, 1997, Pages 384-387

  Mikolajewicz, Uwe ^a   Crowley, Thomas J ^b   Schiller, Andreas ^c   Voss, Reinhard ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; METEOROLOGY; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN GCM; OCEAN COOLING; TELECONNECTIONS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH); PACIFIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0030621327     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/387384a0     Document Type: Article

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