On the response of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current transport to climate change in coupled climate models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Z ^a   Kuhlbrodt, T ^b   Meredith, M P ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEAN HABITATS; PUMPS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; BUOYANCY FORCING; COMBINED EFFECT; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DENSITY GRADIENTS; EKMAN PUMPING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; ISOPYCNAL SURFACES; MODEL PREDICTION; PARAMETERIZED; POLEWARD SHIFT; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STRATIFIED MODEL; SUBPOLAR GYRES; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; WIND FORCING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BUOYANCY FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EDDY; EKMAN PUMPING; GYRE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SLOPE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TILT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WIND FORCING;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84860414440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006757     Document Type: Article

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