Introduction: The Ocean's Meridional Overturning Circulation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-4

  Schmittner, Andreas ^a   Chiang, John C H ^b   Hemming, Sidney R ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Meridional overturning circulation

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DEEP CURRENTS; DRIVING MECHANISM; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; HUGE RESERVOIR; LARGE AMOUNTS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; SURFACE OCEAN;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 84902372114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/173GM02     Document Type: Editorial

References (1)

1. Kuhlbrodt, T., A. Griesel, M. Montoya, A. Levermann, M. Hofmann, and S. Rahmstorf, On the driving processes of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, Rev. Geophys., 45, RG2001, 2007, doi:10.1029/2004RG000166.