Dependence of abrupt atlantic meridional ocean circulation changes on climate background states

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3698-3704

  Gong, Xun ^a   Knorr, Gregor ^a   Lohmann, Gerrit ^a   Zhang, Xu ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

abrupt AMOC change; last glacial interglacial cycle; South Labrador Sea

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT AMOC CHANGE; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; DEEP-WATER FORMATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; INTERMEDIATE LAYERS; LABRADOR SEA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84880220169     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50701     Document Type: Article

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