Fingerprinting of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in climate models to aid in the design of proxy investigations

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 1047-1064

  Heslop, David ^a,b   Paul, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atlantic meridional overturning circulation; Earth system climate model; Fingerprinting; Hosing experiment

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84857441018     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1042-0     Document Type: Article

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