Distinct Modes of Internal Variability in the Global Meridional Overturning Circulation Associated with the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 785-801

  Wei, Wei ^a   Lohmann, Gerrit ^a   Dima, Mihai ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC RESPONSE; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; BACKGROUND CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY FORCING; CARBON BUDGETS; DOMINANT MODE; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; FUTURE CLIMATE; HIGH LATITUDES; HOLOCENES; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; LONG-TERM INTEGRATION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NATURAL MODES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; POLEWARD SHIFT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN; WESTERLY WINDS; WIND PERTURBATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EKMAN TRANSPORT; HOLOCENE; MASS TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OVERTURN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; UPWELLING; WESTERLY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84864528343     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-038.1     Document Type: Article

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