Comparing oceanic heat uptake in AOGCM transient climate change experiments

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1573-1582

  Sokolov, Andrei P ^a   Forest, Chris E ^a   Stone, Peter H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIXING; OCEAN ENGINEERING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

OCEANIC HEAT UPTAKE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; MIXING; TRANSIENT FLOW;

EID: 0037929481     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442-16.10.1573     Document Type: Article

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