The response of the Walker circulation to Last Glacial Maximum forcing: Implications for detection in proxies

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Dinezio, P N ^a   Clement, A ^a   Vecchi, G A ^b   Soden, B ^a   Broccoli, A J ^c   Otto Bliesner, B L ^d   Braconnot, P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Climate Change Research Section CCR/CGD NCAR ^*  (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LA NINA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; OVERTURN; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA LEVEL; THERMOCLINE; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WALKER CIRCULATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

NIA; POMATIOPSIS CALIFORNICA;

EID: 80052238288     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA002083     Document Type: Article

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