Glacial Atlantic overturning increased by wind stress in climate models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 9862-9869

  Muglia, Juan ^a   Schmittner, Andreas ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMOC; circulation; glacial; PMIP3

Indexed keywords

BOILER CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; WIND STRESS;

AMOC; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; GLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MODEL INTER COMPARISONS; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER FORMATIONS; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; PMIP3;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODELING; DEEP WATER FORMATION; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84956892219     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064583     Document Type: Article

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