Response of Atlantic overturning to future warming in a coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice sheet model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 6811-6818

  Gierz, Paul ^a   Lohmann, Gerrit ^a   Wei, Wei ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMOC; climate modeling; ice sheet melting

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIERS; ICE; MELTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

AMOC; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; COUPLED DYNAMICS; DEEP-WATER FORMATION; ICE SHEET MELTING; ICE SHEET MODELS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; SEA-SURFACE CONDITIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEEP WATER; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE SHEET; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EUROPE;

EID: 84941735297     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065276     Document Type: Article

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