Reversed North Atlantic gyre dynamics in present and glacial climates

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 1107-1118

  Montoya, Marisa ^a   Born, Andreas ^b,c   Levermann, Anders ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EKMAN TRANSPORT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GYRE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; WATER MASS; WIND STRESS;

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

EID: 79952243551     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0729-y     Document Type: Article

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