Millennial variability in an idealized ocean model: Predicting the AMOC regime shifts

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3551-3564

  Sévellec, Florian ^a   Fedorov, Alexey V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER EVENTS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN STRATIFICATION; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; SMALL PERTURBATIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; HEAT TRANSFER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PREDICTION; STRATIFICATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84900406467     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00450.1     Document Type: Article

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