Stability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review and synthesis

W Weijer, W Cheng, SS Drijfhout… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The notion that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) can have more than
one stable equilibrium emerged in the 1980s as a powerful hypothesis to explain rapid …

Consistently dated records from the Greenland GRIP, GISP2 and NGRIP ice cores for the past 104 ka reveal regional millennial-scale δ18O gradients with possible …

IK Seierstad, PM Abbott, M Bigler, T Blunier… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
We present a synchronization of the NGRIP, GRIP and GISP2 ice cores onto a master
chronology extending back to 104 ka before present, providing a consistent chronological …

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and abrupt climate change

J Lynch-Stieglitz - Annual review of marine science, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Abrupt changes in climate have occurred in many locations around the globe over the last
glacial cycle, with pronounced temperature swings on timescales of decades or less in the …

North Atlantic ocean circulation and abrupt climate change during the last glaciation

LG Henry, JF McManus, WB Curry, NL Roberts… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The most recent ice age was characterized by rapid and hemispherically asynchronous
climate oscillations, whose origin remains unresolved. Variations in oceanic meridional heat …

An ice–climate oscillatory framework for Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles

LC Menviel, LC Skinner, L Tarasov… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Intermediate glacial states were characterized by large temperature changes in Greenland
and the North Atlantic, referred to as Dansgaard–Oeschger (D–O) variability, with some …

Coherent deglacial changes in western Atlantic Ocean circulation

HC Ng, LF Robinson, JF McManus… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abrupt climate changes in the past have been attributed to variations in Atlantic Meridional
Overturning Circulation (AMOC) strength. However, the exact timing and magnitude of past …

Synchronous and proportional deglacial changes in Atlantic meridional overturning and northeast Brazilian precipitation

S Mulitza, CM Chiessi, E Schefuß, J Lippold… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in heat transport associated with fluctuations in the strength of the Atlantic
meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) are widely considered to affect the position of the …

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 …

Local hydroclimate alters interpretation of speleothem δ18O records

EW Patterson, V Skiba, A Wolf, ML Griffiths… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Oxygen isotopes (δ 18O) are the most commonly utilized speleothem proxy and have
provided many foundational records of paleoclimate. Thus, understanding processes …

Southern Ocean drives multidecadal atmospheric CO2 rise during Heinrich Stadials

KA Wendt, C Nehrbass-Ahles… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The last glacial period was punctuated by cold intervals in the North Atlantic region that
culminated in extensive iceberg discharge events. These cold intervals, known as Heinrich …