Multicentennial variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and its climatic influence in a 4000 year simulation of the GFDL CM2.1 climate model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Delworth, Thomas L ^a   Zeng, Fanrong ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CONTROL SIMULATION; EXTRATROPICS; HEAT TRANSPORT; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OUT OF PHASE; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE ALBEDO; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALES; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL STRATIFICATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; SALINITY; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; UPPER OCEAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84863897268     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052107     Document Type: Article

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