Sensitivity of North Atlantic subpolar gyre and overturning to stratification-dependent mixing: Response to global warming

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 661-668

  Marzeion, Ben ^a,b,c   Levermann, Anders ^d   Mignot, Juliette ^e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Atlantic overturning; Global warming; Ocean mixing; Subpolar gyre

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLOBAL WARMING; GYRE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXING; OVERTURN; STRATIFICATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 77951667967     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0521-4     Document Type: Article

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