The effect of model bias on Atlantic freshwater transport and implications for AMOC bi-stability

J.V. Mecking; S.S. Drijfhout; L.C. Jackson; M.B. Andrews

doi:10.1080/16000870.2017.1299910

The effect of model bias on Atlantic freshwater transport and implications for AMOC bi-stability

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Volume 69 (2017): Issue 1

By: J.V. Mecking, S.S. Drijfhout, L.C. Jackson and M.B. Andrews

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/16000870.2017.1299910 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Submitted on: Dec 22, 2016

Accepted on: Feb 16, 2017

Published on: Jan 1, 2017

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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Keywords:

AMOC,

AMOC collapse,

abrupt climate change,

CGCM,

CMIP5

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