Southern Ocean forcing of the North Atlantic at multi-centennial time scales in the Kiel Climate Model

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 114, Issue , 2015, Pages 39-48

  Martin, Torge ^a   Park, Wonsun ^b   Latif, Mojib ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bi polar ocean seesaw; Climate variability; Deep convection; Meridional ocean circulation

Indexed keywords

NATURAL CONVECTION; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE WATERS;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DEEP CONVECTION; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENTS; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OCEAN CIRCULATION; POLAR OCEANS; REGIONAL SEA LEVEL CHANGES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84927913762     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.01.018     Document Type: Article

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