The de-correlation of westerly winds and westerly-wind stress over the Southern Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 11-12, 2015, Pages 3157-3168

  Liu, Wei ^a,b   Lu, Jian ^b   Leung, L Ruby ^b   Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^c,d   Zhu, Jiang ^c  

^a San Diego   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antarctic sea ice; LGM; PMIP3 CMIP5; Southern Westerly Winds; Westerly wind stress

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA ICE; WESTERLY; WIND STRESS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84947493750     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2530-4     Document Type: Article

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