Intercomparison of the Southern Ocean circulations in IPCC coupled model control simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 4560-4575

  Rusell, Joellen L ^a,c   Stouffer, Ronald J ^b   Dixon, Keith W ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; GREENHOUSE GAS-INDUCED WARMING; TRANSIENT CLIMATE RESPONSE;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND EFFECTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX;

EID: 33749649083     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3869.1     Document Type: Article

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