Response of the South Atlantic circulation to an abrupt collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 521-530

  Laurian, Audine ^a   Drijfhout, Sybren S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; GYRE; HADLEY CELL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 79961010030     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0890-3     Document Type: Article

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