Quasi-periodic fluctuations in the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas region in a coupled climate model

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 541-557

  Gamiz Fortis, Sonia R ^a,b   Sutton, Rowan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Greenland Iceland Norwegian (GIN); HadCM3 model; Interannual variability

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WIND EFFECTS;

GREENLAND-ICELAND-NORWEGIAN (GIN); INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WIND EFFECTS;

ADVECTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND SEA; ICELAND; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 36549073749     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-007-0116-3     Document Type: Article

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