Correction: Abrupt cooling over the North Atlantic in modern climate models (Nature Communications (2017) 8 (14375) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14375);Abrupt cooling over the North Atlantic in modern climate models

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Sgubin, Giovanni ^a,b   Swingedouw, Didier ^b   Drijfhout, Sybren ^c,d   Mary, Yannick ^b   Bennabi, Amine ^b  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CMIP; COOLING; DEEP SEA; LONG-TERM CHANGE; OCEANIC CONVECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; WARMING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT LOSS; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; RADIATIVE FORCING; SALINITY; STRATIFICATION; WARMING; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 85012894582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16222     Document Type: Erratum

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