Estimating trends of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation from long-term hydrographic data and model simulations

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-138

  Lohmann, Gerrit ^a   Haak, Helmuth ^a,b   Jungclaus, Johann H ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic meridional circulation; Ocean circulation; Ocean weather ship stations; Temperature trends

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

(P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; ATLANTIC; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (AMOC); CENTURY (CO); CLIMATE MODELLING; FUTURE CLIMATE; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; INDIRECT MEASURE; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (MOC); MID-LATITUDES; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODEL SIMULATIONS; OCEAN WEATHER; SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; WATER MASS PROPERTIES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROGRAPHY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TEMPERATURE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 46649097785     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-008-0136-7     Document Type: Article

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