Extinction of the northern oceanic deep convection in an ensemble of climate model simulations of the 20th and 21st centuries

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 9-10, 2016, Pages 2863-2882

  Brodeau, Laurent ^a   Koenigk, Torben ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atlantic meridional overturning circulation; Climate change; Climate variability; Global coupled modeling; Ocean deep convection

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OVERTURN; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND SEA; LABRADOR SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84937914061     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2736-5     Document Type: Article

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