Effect of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation on tropical atlantic variability: A regional coupled model study

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3323-3343

  Wen, Caihong ^a   Chang, Ping ^b,c   Saravanan, Ramalingam ^b  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SECOND INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Coupled models; Meridional overturning circulation; Regional effects; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; CLIMATE STUDIES; COUPLED MODELS; FULLY-COUPLED; GULF OF GUINEA; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; OPEN BOUNDARIES; PRIMARY FACTORS; REGIONAL EFFECTS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SURFACE COOLING; SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EXPERIMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MASS TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); GULF OF GUINEA;

TOMATO ASPERMY VIRUS;

EID: 79960321735     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3845.1     Document Type: Article

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