Short-term climate response to a freshwater pulse in the Southern Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Richardson, Glen ^a   Wadley, Martin R ^a   Heywood, Karen J ^a   Stevens, David P ^a   Banks, Helene T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLIMATE SYSTEMS; DEEP WATERS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FRESHWATER; OCEAN; SEAWATER;

OCEANIC REGIONS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 17744375357     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021586     Document Type: Article

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