Recent slowing of Atlantic overturning circulation as a recovery from earlier strengthening

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 518-522

  Jackson, Laura C ^a   Peterson, K Andrew ^a   Roberts, Chris D ^a   Wood, Richard A ^a  

^a Met Offie   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DENSITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL OCEAN; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84976878666     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2715     Document Type: Article

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