Causes and impacts of changes in the Arctic freshwater budget in the 20th and 21st centuries in an AOGCM

• Published in: Climate Dynamics
• Main Authors: Arzel, Olivier, Fichefet, Thierry, Goosse, Hugues, Dufresne, J.L.
• Other Authors: UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: 1443; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Greenland; Laplace; Fram Strait; Iceland; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/71471; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-007-0258-5

The fourth version of the atmosphere-ocean general circulation (AOGCM) model developed at the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL-CM4) is used to investigate the mechanisms influencing the Arctic freshwater balance in response to anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing. The freshwater influence on the...