How much have variations in the meridional overturning circulation contributed to sea surface temperature trends since 1850? A study with the EC-Earth global climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 6343-6357

  Schmith, Torben ^a   Yang, Shuting ^a   Gleeson, Emily ^b   Semmler, Tido ^c  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b Irish Meteorological Service   (Ireland)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HISTORICAL SIMULATION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MULTIDECADAL VARIATIONS; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PRE-INDUSTRIAL LEVELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84905916718     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00651.1     Document Type: Article

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