Early Paleogene oceans and climate: A fully coupled modeling approach using the NCAR CCSM

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 369, Issue , 2003, Pages 25-47

  Huber, Matthew ^a   Sloan, Lisa C ^b   Shellito, Cindy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TOPOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

CLIMATIC FEATURES; FULLY-COUPLED MODEL; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; TROPICAL TEMPERATURES; WIND DRIVEN UPWELLING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

BOTTOM WATER; CLIMATE VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT FLUX; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOGENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; UPWELLING; WATER COLUMN;

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

EID: 84871452160     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2369-8.25     Document Type: Article

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