Sensitivity of the subpolar North Atlantic to Last Glacial Maximum surface forcing and sea ice distribution in an eddy-permitting regional ocean model

Paleoceanography

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Yang, Duo ^a   Myers, Paul G ^a   Bush, Andrew B G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FORCING; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT;

EID: 33751286210     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005PA001209     Document Type: Article

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