Predictability of decadal variations in the thermohaline circulation and climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Collins, Matthew ^a   Sinha, Bablu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING; EARTH (PLANET);

OCEAN THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION (THC); ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN MODELING; DECADAL VARIATIONS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NATURAL VARIATION; OCEAN THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; WESTERN EUROPE;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FORCING; GLOBAL CHANGE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

EID: 0042190515     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016504     Document Type: Article

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