Ekman transport and upwelling during Younger Dryas estimated from wind stress from GENESIS climate model experiments with variable North Atlantic heat convergence

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1333-1336

  Ágústsdóttir, Anna María ^a   Alley, Richard B ^a   Pollard, David ^b   Peterson, William H ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Soil Conservation Service   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FEEDBACK; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; SEA ICE; SPECIFIC HEAT; WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; EKMAN TRANSPORT; HEAT TRANSPORT; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; PALEOCLIMATIC DATA; TROPICAL TEMPERATURES; OCEANIC HEAT TRANSPORT; WIND DRIVEN OCEAN UPWELLING;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; COOLING; EKMAN TRANSPORT; PALEOCLIMATE; UPWELLING; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0039785736     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900084     Document Type: Article

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