Impact of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation on ocean heat storage and transient climate change

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2108-2116

  Kostov, Yavor ^a   Armour, Kyle C ^a   Marshall, John ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMOC; climate change; climate sensitivity; CMIP5; inter model spread; ocean heat uptake

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; HEAT STORAGE; SPECIFIC HEAT;

AMOC; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CMIP5; INTER-MODEL SPREAD; OCEAN HEAT UPTAKE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT CAPACITY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; OVERTURN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORAGE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 84898898990     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058998     Document Type: Article

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