Variability of upper Pacific Ocean overturning in a coupled climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 666-683

  Merryfield, William J ^a   Boer, George J ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ADVECTION; CLIMATE MODELS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SUBTROPICAL CELL (STC);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; UPPER OCEAN;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 17044366640     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-3282.1     Document Type: Article

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