CMIP5 Model Intercomparison of Freshwater Budget and Circulation in the North Atlantic

• Published in: Journal of Climate
• Main Authors: Deshayes, Julie, Curry, Ruth, Msadek, Rym
• Other Authors: ICEMASA, University of Cape Town, Laboratoire de physique des océans (LPO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2014
• Subjects: Climate models; Freshwater; PAGO; Atmosphere-ocean interaction; North Atlantic Oscillation; Climate variability; Model comparison; [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; Curl; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01128173; https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00700.1

International audience The subpolar North Atlantic is a center of variability of ocean properties, wind stress curl, and air–sea exchanges. Observations and hindcast simulations suggest that from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s the subpolar gyre became fresher while the gyre and meridional circulat...