Decelerating Atlantic meridional overturning circulation main cause of future west European summer atmospheric circulation changes

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Haarsma, Reindert J ^a   Selten, Frank M ^a   Drijfhout, Sybren S ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atmosphere ocean coupling; climate change; dynamics; regional response

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT TRANSFER;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHANGES; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MODEL DIFFERENCES; REGIONAL RESPONSE; STATE OF THE ART;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84945232259     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/9/094007     Document Type: Article

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