Variability regimes of simulated Atlantic MOC

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 21, 2006, Pages

  Zhu, Xiuhua ^a,b   Fraedrich, Klaus ^c   Blender, Richard ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FLICKERING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MARINE APPLICATIONS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DETRENDED FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS (DFA2); FLICKER NOISE; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (MOC); RED NOISE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ENERGY BALANCE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 34248519187     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027291     Document Type: Article

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