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
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Science 2014
• Subjects: digital simulation; General circulation models; Multimodel; Climate models; Decadal variation; Interannual variation; time scales; Century 20th; Hindcast; Intensification; thermohaline circulation; ocean circulation; salinity; water balance; fresh water; Comparative study; Meridional overturning circulation; Subpolar gyre; Coupled model; North Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean; Curl
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/34505; https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/11427/34505/1/DeshayesJulie_CMIP5_Model_Int_2014.pdf

ABSTRACT 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 circulations intensifi...