Observations, inferences, and mechanisms of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review

MW Buckley, J Marshall - Reviews of Geophysics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This is a review about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), its mean
structure, temporal variability, controlling mechanisms, and role in the coupled climate …

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 …

Long-term evolution of ocean eddy activity in a warming world

N Beech, T Rackow, T Semmler, S Danilov… - Nature climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Mesoscale ocean eddies, an important element of the climate system, impact ocean
circulation, heat uptake, gas exchange, carbon sequestration and nutrient transport. Much of …

Overlooked possibility of a collapsed Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in warming climate

W Liu, SP Xie, Z Liu, J Zhu - Science Advances, 2017 - science.org
Changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) are moderate in most
climate model projections under increasing greenhouse gas forcing. This intermodel …

On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate

LM Beal, WPM De Ruijter, A Biastoch, R Zahn - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Abstract The Atlantic Ocean receives warm, saline water from the Indo-Pacific Ocean
through Agulhas leakage around the southern tip of Africa. Recent findings suggest that …

Thermohaline circulation hysteresis: A model intercomparison

S Rahmstorf, M Crucifix, A Ganopolski… - Geophysical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We present results from an intercomparison of 11 different climate models of intermediate
complexity, in which the North Atlantic Ocean was subjected to slowly varying changes in …

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in high‐resolution models

JJM Hirschi, B Barnier, C Böning… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) represents the zonally integrated
stream function of meridional volume transport in the Atlantic Basin. The AMOC plays an …

[图书][B] Nonlinear physical oceanography: a dynamical systems approach to the large scale ocean circulation and El Nino

HA Dijkstra - 2005 - Springer
In the? rst edition of this book (publishedby Kluwer Academic in November 2000) the
methodology of dynamical systems theory was introduced and appli-cations of this theory to …

Agulhas leakage dynamics affects decadal variability in Atlantic overturning circulation

A Biastoch, CW Böning, JRE Lutjeharms - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Predicting the evolution of climate over decadal timescales requires a quantitative
understanding of the dynamics that govern the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) …

Indian‐Atlantic interocean exchange: Dynamics, estimation and impact

WPM de Ruijter, A Biastoch, SS Drijfhout… - Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Interocean exchange of heat and salt around South Africa is thought to be a key link in the
maintenance of the global overturning circulation of the ocean. It takes place at the Agulhas …