North Atlantic Intermediate Depth Variability During the Younger Dryas: Evidence from Benthic Foraminiferal Mg/Ca and the Gfdl R30 Coupled Climate Model

Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts - Past and Future Changes of Meridional Overturning

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 247-263

  Came, Rosemarie E ^b,f   Curry, William B ^c   Oppo, Delia W ^c   Broccoli, Anthony J ^a   Stouffer, Ronald J ^e   Lynch Stieglitz, Jean ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circulation; Meridional; Overturning

Indexed keywords

BOILER CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WATER;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; MERIDIONAL; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OVERTURNING; SALINITY VARIABILITY; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 75749093492     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/173GM16     Document Type: Chapter

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