AMOC decline and recovery in a warmer climate.
Sci Rep
; 13(1): 15928, 2023 Sep 23.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37741891
This study presents novel insight into the mechanisms of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) reduction and its recovery under a warmer climate scenario. An one-thousand-year-long numerical simulation of a global coupled ocean-ice-atmosphere climate model, subjected to a stationary atmospheric radiative forcing, depict a coherent picture of the Arctic sea ice melting as a trigger for the initial AMOC reduction, along with decreases in the northward fluxes of salt and heat. Further atmospheric-driven ocean processes contribute to an erosion of the stable stratification of the fresher, yet colder waters in the surface layers of the North Atlantic, contributing to the recovery of a permanently altered AMOC.
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MEDLINE
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En
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Sci Rep
Year:
2023
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Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Country of publication:
United kingdom