Moisture transport from the Atlantic to the Pacific basin and its response to North Atlantic cooling and global warming

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 551-566

  Richter, Ingo ^a,b   Xie, Shang Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central America; Central American isthmus; Global warming; Heinrich events; Meridional overturning circulation; Moisture export; Moisture transport; North Atlantic; North Atlantic freshwater flux; Paleoclimate; Thermohaline; Tropical Americas

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEINRICH EVENT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MOISTURE TRANSFER; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WIND VELOCITY;

ANDES; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CENTRAL AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77954952708     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0708-3     Document Type: Article

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