Pan-oceanic response to increasing anthropogenic aerosols: Impacts on the Southern Hemisphere oceanic circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 21, 2006, Pages

  Cai, W ^a   Bi, D ^a   Church, J ^a   Cowan, T ^a   Dix, M ^a   Rotstayn, L ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENTHALPY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; HEAT REDISTRIBUTION; HEMISPHERIC DIFFERENTIATION;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; THERMAL CONVECTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34248540876     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027513     Document Type: Article

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