The sensitivity of a coupled climate model to its ocean component

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 5126-5150

  Megann, A P ^a   New, A L ^a   Blaker, A T ^a   Sinha, B ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; KUROSHIO; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NONCONSERVATION; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTH-WESTERN ATLANTIC; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT; OCEAN MODEL; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER; SUBPOLAR GYRES; SUBTROPICAL THERMOCLINES; UNIFIED MODEL; VERTICAL COORDINATES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WATER MASS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CONTROL; OCEAN CURRENTS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GYRE; OVERTURN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77958106256     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3394.1     Document Type: Article

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