Thermohaline circulations and global climate change. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/399687· OSTI ID:399687

Hanson, H P

This report discusses results from the project entitled Thermohaline Circulations and Global Climate Change. Results are discussed in three sections related to the development of the Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model (MICOM), surface forcing of the ocean by the atmosphere, and experiments with the MICOM related to the problem of the ocean`s response to global climate change. It will require the use of a global, coupled ocean-atmospheric climate model to quantify the feedbacks between ocean and atmosphere associated with climate changes. The results presented here do provide guidance for such studies in the future.

• Research Organization: Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO (United States). Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG03-93ER61646
• OSTI ID: 399687
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/61646-2; ON: DE97000943; TRN: 96:006347
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Oct 1996
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
OCEANIC CIRCULATION
GLOBAL ASPECTS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
CLIMATIC CHANGE
GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS