Evolution of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation since the last glaciation: model simulations and relevance to present and future

Z Liu - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the associated water masses
have changed dramatically during the glacial–interglacial cycle. Here, I review some recent …

Contrasting fast and slow intertropical convergence zone migrations linked to delayed Southern Ocean warming

W Liu, S Li, C Li, M Rugenstein, AP Thomas - Nature Climate Change, 2024 - nature.com
Migrations of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) have significant impacts on tropical
climate and society. Here we examine the ITCZ migration caused by CO2 increase using …

Instability of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Observations, Modelling and Relevance to Present and Future

Z Liu - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) has changed dramatically during
the glacial–interglacial cycle. One leading hypothesis for these abrupt changes is …

Overturning pathways control AMOC weakening in CMIP6 models

JA Baker, MJ Bell, LC Jackson… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Future projections indicate the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) will
weaken and shoal in response to global warming, but models disagree widely over the …

[HTML][HTML] The Coupled Ice Sheet–Earth System Model Bern3D v3. 0

F Pöppelmeier, F Joos, TF Stocker - Journal of Climate, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Understanding climate variability from millennial to glacial–interglacial time scales remains
challenging due to the complex and nonlinear feedbacks between ice, ocean, sediments …

[HTML][HTML] On the climatic influence of CO forcing in the Pliocene

LE Burton, AM Haywood, JC Tindall, AM Dolan… - Climate of the …, 2023 - cp.copernicus.org
Understanding the dominant climate forcings in the Pliocene is crucial to assessing the
usefulness of the Pliocene as an analogue for our warmer future. Here, we implement a …

Non‐Monotonic Feedback Dependence Under Abrupt CO2 Forcing Due To a North Atlantic Pattern Effect

I Mitevski, Y Dong, LM Polvani… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Effective climate sensitivity (EffCS), commonly estimated from model simulations with abrupt
4× CO2 for 150 years, has been shown to depend on the CO2 forcing level. To understand …

Controls on the strength and structure of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in climate models

MS Nayak, DB Bonan, ER Newsom… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
State‐of‐the‐art climate models simulate a large spread in the mean‐state Atlantic
meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), with strengths varying between 12 and 25 Sv …

Tipping point forecasting in non-stationary dynamics on function spaces

M Liu-Schiaffini, CE Singer, N Kovachki… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Tipping points are abrupt, drastic, and often irreversible changes in the evolution of non-
stationary and chaotic dynamical systems. For instance, increased greenhouse gas …

Rapid 21st century weakening of the Agulhas current in a warming climate

R Zhang, S Sun, Z Chen, H Yang… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Agulhas Current (AC) is a critical component of the global ocean circulation.
Climate models consistently project the AC to decline in the 21st century. Previous studies …