Tropical and extratropical responses of the North Atlantic atmospheric circulation to a sustained weakening of the MOC

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3146-3155

  Brayshaw, David J ^a   Woolings, Tim ^a   Velling, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BAROCLINICITY; BOREAL WINTERS; EXTRATROPICAL; FORCED SHUTDOWN; JET STRUCTURE; MEAN FLOW; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NEAR-SURFACE; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; OPEN OCEAN; PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS; SEA ICE FORMATIONS; STORM TRACK; SUBTROPICAL JET; SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; UNIFIED MODEL; WESTERN EUROPE;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; SEA ICE; STORMS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OVERTURN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM TRACK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 67650539054     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2594.1     Document Type: Article

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