Detecting thermohaline circulation changes from ocean properties in a coupled model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2004, Pages

  Hu, Aixue ^a   Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Han, Weiqing ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; SURFACE WATERS; WATER;

SEA SURFACE; STERIC HEIGHT GRADIENT; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION (THC);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSISTENT MEASURES; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODELING; FRESHWATER FLUXES; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS;

EID: 4544374979     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020218     Document Type: Article

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