Assessment of Southern Ocean water mass circulation and characteristics in CMIP5 models: Historical bias and forcing response

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1830-1844

  Sallee J B ^a   Shuckburgh, E ^a   Bruneau, N ^a   Meijers, A J S ^a   Bracegirdle, T J ^a   Wang, Z ^b   Roy, T ^c  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

CMIP5; overturning; Southern Ocean; water mass

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; VENTILATION;

CMIP5; HYDROLOGICAL PROPERTIES; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; INTERMEDIATE LAYERS; INTERMEDIATE WATERS; OVERTURNING; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WATER MASS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERMEDIATE WATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION; VOLUME; WATER COLUMN; WATER MASS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84878058847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20135     Document Type: Article

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