Ocean bottom pressure changes lead to a decreasing length-of-day in a warming climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Landerer, Felix W ^a   Jungclaus, Johann H ^a   Marotzke, Jochem ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MASS TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; TIDES;

COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; MASS REDISTRIBUTION; OCEAN BOTTOM PRESSURE; OCEAN WARMING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BOTTOM PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; SEAFLOOR; WARMING;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 34249902553     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL029106     Document Type: Article

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