Global teleconnections in response to a shutdown of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3002-3019

  Wu, Lixin ^a   Li, Chun ^a   Yang, Chunxue ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF WATER; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTIONS; ATLANTIC; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES; BOREAL SPRING; CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EXTRATROPICAL; GLOBAL OCEANS; GLOBAL RESPONSE; INTER TROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC; TELECONNECTION; TELECONNECTIONS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO; GLOBAL OCEAN; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; CENTRAL AMERICA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 48749099103     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1858.1     Document Type: Article

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