Sensitivity of the North Atlantic Ocean Circulation to an abrupt change in the Nordic Sea overflow in a high resolution global coupled climate model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Rong ^a   Delworth, Thomas L ^a   Rosati, Anthony ^a   Anderson, Whit G ^a   Dixon, Keith W ^a   Lee, Hyun Chul ^a,b   Zeng, Fanrong ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b High Performance Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; DEEP CONVECTION; GRAND BANKS; GULF STREAM; HIGH RESOLUTION; KELVIN WAVES; LABRADOR SEA; NEWFOUNDLANDS; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENTS; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; OCEANIC EDDIES; OCEANIC RESPONSE; RECIRCULATION GYRE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SUBPOLAR GYRES; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; BATHYMETRY; CLIMATE MODELING; GYRE; HEAT TRANSFER; KELVIN WAVE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRACER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84055221854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007240     Document Type: Article

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