Abrupt cooling over the North Atlantic in modern climate models

Concerns on climate change include the risk of abrupt cooling in the North Atlantic. Here, the authors analyse CMIP5 projections and show that a convection collapse in the subpolar gyre can cool this region by up to 3°C in 10 years, which is as likely to occur by 2100 as a continuous warming.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Giovanni Sgubin, Didier Swingedouw, Sybren Drijfhout, Yannick Mary, Amine Bennabi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14375