Climate drift of AMOC, North Atlantic salinity and arctic sea ice in CFSv2 decadal predictions

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 559-583

  Huang, Bohua ^a,b   Zhu, Jieshun ^b   Marx, Lawrence ^b   Wu, Xingren ^c   Kumar, Arun ^d   Hu, Zeng Zhen ^d   Balmaseda, Magdalena A ^e   Zhang, Shaoqing ^f   Lu, Jian ^g   Schneider, Edwin K ^a,b   Kinter III, James L ^a,b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic sea ice; Atlantic meridional overturning circulation; Climate drift; Decadal prediction; North Atlantic salinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925500940     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2395-y     Document Type: Article

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