Ecosystem responses to abrupt climate change: Teleconnections, scale and the hydrological cycle

Climatic Change

Volumn 64, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 127-142

  Higgins, Paul A T ^a   Vellinga, Michael ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE SYSTEM TELECONNECTIONS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; TELECONNECTION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 3342989207     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CLIM.0000024672.41571.ba     Document Type: Article

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