Is there a simple bi-polar ocean seesaw?

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 49, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 19-27

  Seidov, Dan ^a   Stouffer, Ronald J ^b   Haupt, Bernd J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Freshwater; Numerical modeling; Southern Ocean; Thermohaline ocean circulation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; FRESHWATER INPUT; NUMERICAL MODEL; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

EID: 27644527690     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2005.05.001     Document Type: Article

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