Variability of atlantic meridional overturning circulation in FGOALS-g2

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 95-109

  Huang, Wenyu ^a   Wang, Bin ^a,b   Li, Lijuan ^b   Dong, Li ^b   Lin, Pengfei ^b   Yu, Yongqiang ^b   Zhou, Tianjun ^b   Liu, Li ^a   Xu, Shiming ^a   Xia, Kun ^a   Pu, Ye ^b   Wang, Lu ^b   Liu, Mimi ^b   Shen, Si ^b   Hu, Ning ^b   Wang, Yong ^b   Sun, Wenqi ^b   Dong, Fang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

AMOC; decadal variability; deep convection; FGOALS g2

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890866757     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-013-2155-7     Document Type: Article

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