Influence of the multidecadal Atlantic meridional overturning circulation variability on European climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 6062-6067

  Pohlmann, Holger ^a,b   Sienz, Frank ^b,c   Latif, Mojib ^b,d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; NATURAL MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIMULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33846178995     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3941.1     Document Type: Article

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