Emergent anthropogenic trends in California Current upwelling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 5044-5052

  Brady, Riley X ^a   Alexander, Michael A ^b   Lovenduski, Nicole S ^a   Rykaczewski, Ryan R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

California Current; coastal upwelling; Earth System Model; internal variability; model ensemble

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; COASTAL UPWELLING; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; MODEL ENSEMBLES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING; WIND STRESS;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 85019729625     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL072945     Document Type: Article

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