Effect of the Greenland Ice-Sheet Melting on the Response and Stability of the AMOC in the Next Centuries

Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts - Past and Future Changes of Meridional Overturning

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 383-392

  Swingedouw, Didier ^a   Braconnot, Pascale ^a  

^a Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Meridional overturning circulation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT TRANSFER; SEA ICE;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84881096995     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/173GM24     Document Type: Chapter

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