Dichotomy between freshwater and heat flux effects on oceanic conveyor belt stability and global climate

Abstract The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is an important global-scale oceanic circulation, and its changes may be responsible for past abrupt climate change events. By using two versions of a coupled climate model, here we show that the stability of this circulation depends not only...

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Main Authors: Aixue Hu, Gerald A. Meehl, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Weiqing Han, Bette Otto-Bliesner, Feng He, Tongwen Wu, Nan Rosenbloom, Warren G. Strand, James Edwards
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-07-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00916-0