Response of the antarctic circumpolar current transport to global warming in a coupled model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Bi, Daohua ^a   Budd, William F ^a   Hirst, Anthony C ^b   Wu, Xingren ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; ATMOSPHERIC CO; COUPLED MODELING; DENSITY GRADIENTS; DRAKE PASSAGE; INITIAL STATE; UNDERLYING LAYERS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 0037728876     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015919     Document Type: Article

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