Mechanisms of aerosol-forced AMOC variability in a state of the art climate model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2087-2096

  Menary, Matthew B ^a   Roberts, Christopher D ^a   Palmer, Matthew D ^a   Halloran, Paul R ^a   Jackson, Laura ^a   Wood, Richard A ^a   Müller, Wolfgang A ^b   Matei, Daniela ^b   Lee, Sang Ki ^c  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

aerosols; amoc; atlantic; circulation; cmip5; overturning

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BOILER CIRCULATION; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AMOC; ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; ATLANTIC; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHANGES; CMIP5; OVERTURNING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AEROSOL; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT;

EID: 84878063141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20178     Document Type: Article

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