Past, present, and future changes in the atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1663-1676

  Srokosz, M ^a   Baringer, M ^b   Bryden, H ^a   Cunningham, S ^a   Delworth, T ^c   Lozier, S ^d   Marotzke, J ^e   Sutton, R ^f  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CLIMATE IMPACTS; HEAT TRANSPORT; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; WHITE PAPERS;

METEOROLOGY;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 84869411467     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00151.1     Document Type: Article

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