The Pacific-Atlantic seesaw and the Bering Strait

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Hu, Aixue ^a   Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Han, Weiqing ^b   Abe Ouchi, Ayako ^c   Morrill, Carrie ^b,d   Okazaki, Yusuke ^e   Chikamoto, Megume O ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; BERING STRAIT; CUT-OFF; FULLY-COUPLED; MODELING STUDIES; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN BASINS; PACIFIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PROXY DATA; SUBTROPICAL WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; ICEBERG; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEAN BASIN; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SALT; CLIMATE VARIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; STRAIT; STRATIFICATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BERING STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84856722934     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050567     Document Type: Article

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