Surface wind-stress threshold for glacial Atlantic overturning

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Montoya, Marisa ^a   Levermann, Anders ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; WIND; WIND STRESS;

DEEP WATER FORMATION (DWF); GLACIAL OVERTURNING; SURFACE WIND-STRESS THRESHOLD;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DEEP WATER FORMATION; GYRE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; THRESHOLD; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND; NORTH SEA;

EID: 41849127473     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032560     Document Type: Article

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