Will the North Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation weaken during the 21st century?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1023-1026

  Gent, P R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEAN ENGINEERING; SALINE WATER;

THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035866913     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011727     Document Type: Article

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