Adjustment of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system to a sudden change in the Thermohaline Circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 15, 2002, Pages

  Dong, B W ^a   Sutton, R T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC FEEDBACKS; HEAT TRANSPORT; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTH ATLANTIC; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036705517     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015229     Document Type: Article

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