Shutdown and recovery of the AMOC in a coupled global climate model: The role of the advective feedback

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1182-1188

  Jackson, L C ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

flux adjustments; freshwater transport; GCM; overturning circulation; stability

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; COUPLED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; FLUX ADJUSTMENTS; FRESHWATER TRANSPORTS; GCM; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; TRANSIENT SIMULATION;

CLIMATE MODELS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; WATER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SALINITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84876904709     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50289     Document Type: Article

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