Simulated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the 20th century with an ocean model forced by reanalysis-based atmospheric data sets

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 100, Issue , 2016, Pages 31-48

  He, Yan Chun ^a,b,e   Drange, Helge ^c,e   Gao, Yongqi ^a,b,e   Bentsen, Mats ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d Uni Research   (Norway)

^e BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Air sea flux; AMOC; CORE II; Hindcast simulation; Twentieth Century Reanalysis

Indexed keywords

SEA ICE;

AIR SEA FLUX; AMOC; CORE-II; HINDCASTS; REANALYSIS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DATA SET; HINDCASTING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84957884414     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2015.12.011     Document Type: Article

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