Forecast cooling of the Atlantic subpolar gyre and associated impacts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5167-5174

  Hermanson, Leon ^a,b   Eade, Rosie ^a   Robinson, Niall H ^a   Dunstone, Nick J ^a   Andrews, Martin B ^a   Knight, Jeff R ^a   Scaife, Adam A ^a   Smith, Doug M ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic; decadal prediction; impacts; subpolar gyre

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; DECADAL PREDICTIONS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; IMPACTS; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; SUBPOLAR GYRES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE EFFECT; COOLING; DECADAL VARIATION; GYRE; HEAT FLUX; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84904521005     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060420     Document Type: Article

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