Investigating the cause of the response of the thermohaline circulation to past and future climage changes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1365-1387

  Stouffer, Ronald J ^a   Yin, J ^a,b   Gregory, J M ^c,d   Dixon, K W ^a   Spelman, M J ^a   Hurlin, W ^a   Weaver, A J ^e   Eby, M ^e   Flato, G M ^f   Hasumi, H ^g   Hu, A ^h   Jungclaus, J H ⁱ   Kamenkovich, I V ^j   Levermann, A ^k   Montoya, M ^l   Murakami, S ^m   Nawrath, S ^k   Oka, A ^g   Peltier, W R ⁿ   Robitaille, D Y ^f   Sokolov, A ^o   Vettoretti, G ⁿ   Weber, S L ^p   more..

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^k POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^m METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^o MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^p ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 33646449957     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3689.1     Document Type: Article

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