North Atlantic eddy-driven jet in interglacial and glacial winter climates

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3977-3997

  Merz, Niklaus ^a   Raible, Christoph C ^a   Woollings, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MOMENTUM;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVES; BIAS CORRECTION; EARLY HOLOCENE; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; MULTI-MODALITY; STATE OF THE ART; STATIONARY WAVES; WESTERLY WINDS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EDDY; EEMIAN; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; JET FLOW; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; MOMENTUM; WESTERLY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84938767917     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00525.1     Document Type: Article

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