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 …

Energetic overturning flows, dynamic interocean exchanges, and ocean warming observed in the South Atlantic

MP Chidichimo, RC Perez, S Speich… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Since the inception of the international South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
initiative in the 21st century, substantial advances have been made in observing and …

Observable, low-order dynamical controls on thresholds of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

RA Wood, JM Rodríguez, RS Smith, LC Jackson… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
We examine the dynamics of thresholds of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
(AMOC) in an Atmosphere–Ocean General Circulation Model (AOGCM) and a simple box …

Spontaneous Activation of the Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation (PMOC) in Long-Term Ocean Response to Greenhouse Forcing

PE Curtis, AV Fedorov - Journal of Climate, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
The present-day deep ocean global meridional overturning circulation is dominated by the
Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), with dense water sinking in the high …

Long-term variability and trends in the Agulhas Leakage and its impacts on the global overturning

H Großelindemann, FS Castruccio… - Ocean …, 2025 - os.copernicus.org
Agulhas Leakage transports relatively warm and salty Indian Ocean waters into the Atlantic
Ocean and as such is an important component of the global ocean circulation. These waters …

Collapse and slow recovery of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) under abrupt greenhouse gas forcing

PE Curtis, AV Fedorov - Climate Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
Modeling studies which abruptly increase atmospheric CO2 concentration evidence a rapid
reduction or collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) from its …

Response of atmospheric pCO to a strong AMOC weakening under low and high emission scenarios

AA Boot, AS von der Heydt, HA Dijkstra - Climate Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Earth System is warming due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
which increases the risk of passing a tip** point in the Earth System, such as a collapse of …

A Kinematic–Dynamic 3D Model for Density-Driven Ocean Flows: Construction, Global Well-Posedness, and Dynamics

O Saporta-Katz, ES Titi, H Gildor… - Journal of Nonlinear …, 2023 - Springer
Differential buoyancy sources at an ocean surface may induce a density-driven flow that
joins faster flow components to create a multi-scale, 3D flow. Potential temperature and …

Variability and feedbacks in the Atlantic freshwater budget of CMIP5 models with reference to Atlantic meridional overturning circulation stability

K Haines, D Ferreira, D Mignac - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
It has been suggested that freshwater transports by the Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation (AMOC) in the South Atlantic may be a useful metric for determining the stability …