Detectability of changes to the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in the Hadley Centre Climate Models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 2533-2546

  Roberts, Christopher D ^a   Palmer, Matthew D ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMOC; Atlantic meridional overturning circulation; Climate model; Detection; MOC

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DETECTION METHOD; GLOBAL WARMING; HADLEY CELL; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OVERTURN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84868094123     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1306-3     Document Type: Article

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