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The Southern Hemisphere Westerlies in a Warming World: Propping Open the Door to the Deep Ocean

The Southern Hemisphere Westerlies in a Warming World: Propping Open the Door to the Deep Ocean

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The Southern Hemisphere Westerlies in a Warming World: Propping Open the Door to the Deep Ocean

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Full title

The Southern Hemisphere Westerlies in a Warming World: Propping Open the Door to the Deep Ocean

Publisher

Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society

Journal title

Journal of climate, 2006-12, Vol.19 (24), p.6382-6390

Language

English

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Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society

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Contents

A coupled climate model with poleward-intensified westerly winds simulates significantly higher storage of heat and anthropogenic carbon dioxide by the Southern Ocean in the future when compared with the storage in a model with initially weaker, equatorward-biased westerlies. This difference results from the larger outcrop area of the dense waters...

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Full title

The Southern Hemisphere Westerlies in a Warming World: Propping Open the Door to the Deep Ocean

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_20650133

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_20650133

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ISSN

0894-8755

E-ISSN

1520-0442

DOI

10.1175/jcli3984.1

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