North Atlantic observations sharpen meridional overturning projections

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 50, Issue 11-12, 2018, Pages 4171-4188

  Olson, R ^a   An, S I ^a   Fan, Y ^b   Evans, J P ^b   Caesar, L ^c,d  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH PIK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation; Bayesian Model Averaging; Climate modeling; Model structural error; Probabilistic projections

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; PROBABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 85027985733     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3867-7     Document Type: Article

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