Wintertime atmospheric response to North Atlantic ocean circulation variability in a climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 7659-7677

  Frankignoul, Claude ^a   Gastineau, Guillaume ^a   Kwon, Young Oh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climate variability; Meridional overturning circulation; North Atlantic Oscillation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF STREAM;

EID: 84947795911     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0007.1     Document Type: Article

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