Correcting North Atlantic sea surface salinity biases in the Kiel Climate Model: influences on ocean circulation and Atlantic Multidecadal Variability

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 47, Issue 7-8, 2016, Pages 2543-2560

  Park, T ^a   Park, W ^a   Latif, M ^a,b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic meridional overturning circulation; Atlantic multidecadal variability; Climate modeling; Model bias; Sea surface salinity

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84954544278     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-2982-1     Document Type: Article

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