Past and future ocean warming

L Cheng, K von Schuckmann, JP Abraham… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in ocean heat content (OHC) provide a measure of ocean warming, with
impacts on the Earth system. This Review synthesizes estimates of past and future OHC …

Understanding Arctic Ocean circulation: A review of ocean dynamics in a changing climate

ML Timmermans, J Marshall - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Arctic Ocean is a focal point of climate change, with ocean warming,
freshening, sea‐ice decline, and circulation that link to the changing atmospheric and …

Exacerbated summer European warming not captured by climate models neglecting long-term aerosol changes

DL Schumacher, J Singh, M Hauser… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
In much of western-central Europe, summer temperatures have surged three times faster
than the global mean warming since 1980, yet this is not captured by most climate model …

A review of the role of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in Atlantic multidecadal variability and associated climate impacts

R Zhang, R Sutton, G Danabasoglu… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
By synthesizing recent studies employing a wide range of approaches (modern
observations, paleo reconstructions, and climate model simulations), this paper provides a …

No evidence for globally coherent warm and cold periods over the preindustrial Common Era

R Neukom, N Steiger, JJ Gómez-Navarro, J Wang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Earth's climate history is often understood by breaking it down into constituent climatic
epochs. Over the Common Era (the past 2,000 years) these epochs, such as the Little Ice …

[HTML][HTML] Climate tip** point interactions and cascades: A review

N Wunderling, AS von der Heydt… - Earth System …, 2024 - esd.copernicus.org
Climate tip** elements are large-scale subsystems of the Earth that may transgress critical
thresholds (tip** points) under ongoing global warming, with substantial impacts on the …

The North Atlantic Ocean is in a state of reduced overturning

DA Smeed, SA Josey, C Beaulieu… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is responsible for a
variable and climatically important northward transport of heat. Using data from an array of …

Faster Atlantic currents drive poleward expansion of temperate phytoplankton in the Arctic Ocean

L Oziel, A Baudena, M Ardyna, P Massicotte… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The Arctic marine biome, shrinking with increasing temperature and receding sea-ice cover,
is tightly connected to lower latitudes through the North Atlantic. By flowing northward …

The role of Atlantic heat transport in future Arctic winter sea ice loss

M Årthun, T Eldevik, LH Smedsrud - Journal of Climate, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
During recent decades Arctic sea ice variability and retreat during winter have largely been
a result of variable ocean heat transport (OHT). Here we use the Community Earth System …

Internal and external forcing of multidecadal Atlantic climate variability over the past 1,200 years

J Wang, B Yang, FC Ljungqvist, J Luterbacher… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The North Atlantic experiences climate variability on multidecadal scales, which is
sometimes referred to as Atlantic multidecadal variability. However, the relative contributions …