Simulated response of North Pacific Mode Waters to global warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Luo, Yiyong ^a   Liu, Qinyu ^b   Rothstein, Lewis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SCENARIOS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; ISOPYCNAL SURFACES; NORTH PACIFIC; SIMULATED RESPONSE; SUBDUCTION PROCESS; SUBTROPICAL REGIONS; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; UPPER OCEAN;

GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND STRESS;

HEAT FLUX;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MODE WATER; SHOALING WAVE; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPPER OCEAN; WIND STRESS; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 72049114418     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040906     Document Type: Article

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