Multidecadal climate variability in the Greenland Sea and surrounding regions: A coupled model simulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 257-260

  Delworth, Thomas L ^a   Manabe, Syukuro ^a   Stouffer, Ronald J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; SURFACE WATERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; EAST GREENLAND CURRENTS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; SALINITY VARIATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURROUNDING REGIONS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE;

MULTIDECADAL FLUCTUATION; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AIR/SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; MODELLING; MULTIDECADAL; OSCILLATION;

GREENLAND SEA;

EID: 0031080574     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03927     Document Type: Article

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