The variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, the North Atlantic Oscillation, and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation in the Bergen climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2361-2375

  Mignot, Juliette ^a,b   Frankignoul, Claude ^b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT CONVECTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; WIND EFFECTS;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (AMOC); BERGEN CLIMATE MODEL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OVERTURN;

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

EID: 26844561582     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3405.1     Document Type: Article

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