Response of Southern Ocean circulation to global warming may enhance basal ice shelf melting around Antarctica

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 741-756

  Hattermann, Tore ^a   Levermann, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL ICE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; ICE SHELF; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77957021016     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0643-3     Document Type: Article

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