Has coarse ocean resolution biased simulations of transient climate sensitivity'

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 8522-8529

  Winton, Michael ^a   Anderson, Whit G ^a   Delworth, Thomas L ^a   Griffies, Stephen M ^a   Hurlin, William J ^a   Rosati, Anthony ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC REACTORS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CLIMATE RESPONSE; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; COARSE MODELS; COARSE-RESOLUTION MODEL; PARAMETERIZING; SOUTHERN OCEAN; THREE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; EDDY COVARIANCE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OVERTURN; PARAMETERIZATION; SIMULATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84921541202     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061523     Document Type: Article

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