Pacific Shallow Meridional Overturning Circulation in a Warming Climate

By analyzing a set of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) climate model projections of the twenty-first century, it is found that the shallow meridional overturning of the Pacific subtropical cells (STCs) show contrasting trends between two hemispheres in a warming climate. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wang, Daiwei, Cane, Mark A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71728