Millennial-scale oscillations in the Southern Ocean in response to atmospheric CO2 increase

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 76, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 128-136

  Alvarez Solas, Jorge ^a   Charbit, Sylvie ^a   Ramstein, Gilles ^a   Paillard, Didier ^a   Dumas, Christophe ^a   Ritz, Catherine ^b   Roche, Didier M ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b VERIMAG   (France)

Author keywords

Abrupt change; Climate variability; Global warming; Ice sheets; Millennial oscillations; Ocean behaviour; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ICE SHEETS; MILLENNIAL OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN BEHAVIOUR; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIERS; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE SHEET; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OSCILLATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIMESCALE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 79954677717     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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