The influence of transient surface fluxes on North Atlantic overturning in a coupled GCM climate change experiment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2749-2752

  Dixon, Keith W ^a   Delworth, Thomas L ^a   Spelman, Michael J ^a   Stouffer, Ronald J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RUNOFF; WIND; CATCHMENTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HEAT FLUX; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GREENHOUSE GAS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TRANSIENT SURFACE FLUXES; AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; FRESHWATER FLUXES; GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG); NORTH ATLANTIC; STRESS VARIATIONS; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

EID: 0033373383     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900571     Document Type: Article

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