Spurious AMOC trends in global ocean sea-ice models related to subarctic freshwater forcing

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 69, Issue , 2013, Pages 39-49

  Behrens, Erik ^a   Biastoch, Arne ^a   Böning, Claus W ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMOC; Long term model trends; North Atlantic; SSS restoring; Surface boundary condition; Surface freshwater flux

Indexed keywords

AMOC; FRESHWATER FLUXES; LONG-TERM MODELS; NORTH ATLANTIC; SSS RESTORING; SURFACE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF WATER; ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MODEL TEST; OVERTURN; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); DENMARK STRAIT; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84879753204     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.05.004     Document Type: Article

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