Mode water ventilation and subtropical countercurrent over the North Pacific in CMIP5 simulations and future projections

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Lixiao ^a,b   Xie, Shang Ping ^a,b   Liu, Qinyu ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE WARMS; CORE LAYERS; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DOMINANT MODE; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; FUTURE CLIMATE; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; HAWAIIAN LEE COUNTERCURRENT; NORTH PACIFIC; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SUBTROPICAL COUNTERCURRENT; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; UPPER OCEAN; WATER SIMULATIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; TROPICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COUNTERCURRENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODE WATER; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; STRATIFICATION; UPPER OCEAN; VENTILATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84871361231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008377     Document Type: Article

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