Climate evolution in the last five centuries simulated by an atmosphere-ocean model: Global temperatures, the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Late Maunder Minimum

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 271-289

  Zorita, Eduardo ^a   Von Storch, Hans ^a   Gonzalez Rouco, Fidel J ^b   Cubasch, Ulrich ^c   Luterbacher, Jürg ^d   Legutke, Stephanie ^e   Fischer Bruns, Irene ^e   Schlese, Ulrich ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; SEA ICE; WIND STRESS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; GREENHOUSE GAS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION;

EID: 33646034918     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2004/0013-0271     Document Type: Article

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