The effect of greenhouse gas concentrations and ice sheets on the glacial AMOC in a coupled climate model

Climate of the Past

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1829-1846

  Klockmann, Marlene ^a,b   Mikolajewicz, Uwe ^a   Marotzke, Jochem ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; BRINE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEEP SEA; DEEP SEISMIC SOUNDING; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; RADIATIVE FORCING; SHOALING WAVE; WATER MASS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84986586521     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-1829-2016     Document Type: Article

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