The evolution of the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation since 1980

LC Jackson, A Biastoch, MW Buckley… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a key component of the
climate through its transport of heat in the North Atlantic Ocean. Decadal changes in the …

Challenges simulating the AMOC in climate models

LC Jackson, HT Hewitt, D Bruciaferri… - … of the Royal …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The latest assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
concluded that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) was very likely to …

North Atlantic overturning and water mass transformation in CMIP6 models

LC Jackson, T Petit - Climate Dynamics, 2023‏ - Springer
Climate models are important tools for investigating how the climate might change in the
future, however recent observations have suggested that these models are unable to …

Increased Asian aerosols drive a slowdown of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

F Liu, X Li, Y Luo, W Cai, J Lu, XT Zheng… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Observational evidence and climate model experiments suggest a slowdown of the Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) since the mid-1990s. Increased greenhouse …

Improved extratropical North Atlantic atmosphere–ocean variability with increasing ocean model resolution

CR Patrizio, PJ Athanasiadis, C Frankignoul… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
North Atlantic atmosphere–ocean variability is assessed in climate model simulations from
HighResMIP that have low resolution (LR) or high resolution (HR) in their atmosphere and …

Role of the Labrador Current in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation response to greenhouse warming

X Shan, S Sun, L Wu, M Spall - Nature Communications, 2024‏ - nature.com
Anthropogenic warming is projected to enhance Arctic freshwater exportation into the
Labrador Sea. This extra freshwater may weaken deep convection and contribute to the …

North Atlantic Oscillation impact on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation shaped by the mean state

HJ Kim, SI An, JH Park, MK Sung, D Kim… - npj Climate and …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Accurate representation of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in global
climate models is crucial for reliable future climate predictions and projections. In this study …

Recent multi‐decadal southern ocean surface cooling unlikely caused by southern annular mode trends

Y Dong, LM Polvani, DB Bonan - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Over recent decades, the Southern Ocean (SO) has experienced multi‐decadal surface
cooling despite global warming. Earlier studies have proposed that recent SO cooling has …

Little Ice Age abruptly triggered by intrusion of Atlantic waters into the Nordic Seas

F Lapointe, RS Bradley - Science Advances, 2021‏ - science.org
The Little Ice Age (LIA) was one of the coldest periods of the postglacial period in the
Northern Hemisphere. Although there is increasing evidence that this time interval was …

Buoyancy forcing dominates the cross-equatorial ocean heat transport response to Northern Hemisphere extratropical cooling

MT Luongo, SP **e, I Eisenman - Journal of Climate, 2022‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Cross-equatorial ocean heat transport (OHT) changes have been found to damp meridional
shifts of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) induced by hemispheric asymmetries in …