Variations of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in control and transient simulations of the last millennium

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 133-150

  Hofer, D ^a   Raible, C C ^a   Stocker, T F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AMPLITUDE; BAROTROPIC MOTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GYRE; LATITUDE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRMINGER SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 79952180914     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-133-2011     Document Type: Article

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