The dynamics of learning about a climate threshold

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 321-332

  Keller, Klaus ^a   McInerney, David ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CLIMATE FORCING; DETECTION METHOD; GREENHOUSE GAS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 38849168122     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0290-5     Document Type: Article

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