Evaluation of ACCESS climate model ocean diagnostics in CMIP5 simulations

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-119

  Marsland, S J ^a   Bi, D ^a   Uotila, P ^a   Fiedler, R ^a   Griffies, S M ^b   Lorbacher, K ^a   O'Farrell, S ^a   Sullivan, A ^a   Uhe, P ^a   Zhou, X ^a   Hirst, A C ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL OCEAN; GREENHOUSE GAS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; WARMING;

EID: 84882413982     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6301.007     Document Type: Article

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