Climate variability and radiocarbon in the CM2Mc earth system model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 4230-4254

  Galbraith, Eric D ^a   Kwon, Eun Young ^b   Gnanadesikan, Anand ^c   Rodgers, Keith B ^b   Griffies, Stephen M ^c   Bianchi, Daniele ^b   Sarmiento, Jorge L ^b   Dunne, John P ^c   Simeon, Jennifer ^d   Slater, Richard D ^b   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^c   Held, Isaac M ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Atmospheric; Chemistry; Climate change; Climate variability; Coupled models; Oceanic

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA EXCHANGE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODELS; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; EARTH SYSTEMS; FLUX ADJUSTMENTS; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MODULAR OCEAN MODEL; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMISTRY MODELS; OCEANIC; POTENTIAL SOURCES; PRODUCTION RATES; RADIATIVE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SEA SURFACES; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TIME-SCALES; WEDDELL SEA;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; EARTH (PLANET); FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE; THROUGHFLOW; TIMESCALE; VENTILATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBARCTIC); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 79959498794     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3919.1     Document Type: Article

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