Is a decline of AMOC causing the warming hole above the North Atlantic in observed and modeled warming patterns?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 8373-8379

  Drijfhout, Sybren ^a   van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan ^a   Cimatoribus, Andrea ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Ensembles; Model evaluation performance; Pattern detection; Regression analysis; Trends

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ENSEMBLES; MODEL EVALUATION; PATTERN DETECTION; TRENDS;

CLIMATOLOGY; NATURAL CONVECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONVECTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL WARMING; GYRE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MODEL VALIDATION; OVERTURN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); IRMINGER SEA; LABRADOR SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84871863227     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00490.1     Document Type: Article

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