Deep North Atlantic freshening simulated in a coupled climate model

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 73, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 370-383

  Wu, Peili ^a   Wood, Richard ^a   Stott, Peter ^a   Jones, Gareth S ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEA ICE;

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; LABRADOR SEA;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; SALINITY; SIMULATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 34250212918     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2006.07.009     Document Type: Article

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