North Atlantic climate response to lake Agassiz drainage at coarse and ocean eddy-permitting resolutions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2651-2667

  Spence, Paul ^a   Saenko, Oleg A ^b   Sijp, Willem ^a   England, Matthew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; EDDY-PERMITTING RESOLUTION; FRESHWATER DISCHARGE; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; HIGHER RESOLUTION; MERIDIONAL HEAT TRANSPORTS; PROGLACIAL LAKES;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; WATER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM PRESSURE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; DRAINAGE; EDDY; ENTRAINMENT; FRESHWATER; GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ; HEAT TRANSFER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84877814506     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00683.1     Document Type: Article

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