Expert judgements on the response of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation to climate change

Climatic Change

Volumn 82, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 235-265

  Zickfeld, Kirsten ^a,b   Levermann, Anders ^b   Morgan, M Granger ^c   Kuhlbrodt, Till ^b   Rahmstorf, Stefan ^b   Keith, David W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CLIMATE MODELS; NORTH ATLANTIC; STATE-OF-THE-ART;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34247195097     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-007-9246-3     Document Type: Article

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