Global mean surface air temperature and North Atlantic overturning in a suite of coupled GCM climate change experiments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1885-1888

  Dixon, Keith W ^a   Lanzante, John R ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; MODEL INITIAL CONDITIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SULFATE AEROSOLS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; TRANSITION POINT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE GASES; NORTH ATLANTIC THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING;

EID: 0032710901     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900382     Document Type: Article

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