northern high-latitude heat budget decomposition and transient warming

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 609-621

  Rugenstein, Maria A A ^a   Winton, Michael ^b   Stouffer, Ronald J ^b   Griffies, Stephen M ^b   Hallberg, Robert ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC HEAT; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT BUDGET; LONG WAVES; NORDIC SEAS; NORTHERN LATITUDES; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT; OCEAN HEAT UPTAKE; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; TRANSIENT WARMING;

BUDGET CONTROL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT TRANSFER; SEA ICE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; THERMAL CONVECTION; THERMAL DECOMPOSITION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84872941613     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00695.1     Document Type: Article

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