Diagnosing natural variability of North Atlantic water masses in HadCM3

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1925-1941

  Haines, Keith ^a   Old, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SEAWATER; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE MODEL; SURFACE HEAT FLUX; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WATER CIRCULATION; WATER MASSES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 24644501638     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3348.1     Document Type: Article

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