A multimodel comparison of centennial Atlantic meridional overturning circulation variability

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 2377-2388

  Menary, Matthew B ^a   Park, Wonsun ^b   Lohmann, Katja ^c   Vellinga, Michael ^a   Palmer, Matthew D ^a   Latif, Mojib ^b   Jungclaus, Johann H ^c  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMOC; Centennial variability; ITCZ; MOC; North Atlantic; Overturning

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ICELAND;

EID: 84861806749     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1172-4     Document Type: Article

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