Why is there a minimum in projected warming in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Leloup, Julie ^a   Clement, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULLY-COUPLED; HIGH WIND SPEED; LAYER OCEAN MODEL; MEAN WIND SPEED; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; PRIMARY CONTRIBUTION; RADIATIVE HEATING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE HEAT BUDGET; TROPICAL OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPICS; WIND EFFECTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HURRICANE EVENT; LATENT HEAT FLUX; OPTIMIZATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL REGION; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 70349588442     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038609     Document Type: Article

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