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 …

Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users

RE Kopp, M Oppenheimer, JL O'Reilly… - Nature climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Future sea-level change is characterized by both quantifiable and unquantifiable uncertainties.
Effective communication of both types of uncertainty is a key challenge in translating sea-…

Atlantic-Pacific asymmetry in deep water formation

D Ferreira, P Cessi, HK Coxall… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
While the Atlantic Ocean is ventilated by high-latitude deep water formation and exhibits a
pole-to-pole overturning circulation, the Pacific Ocean does not. This asymmetric global …

Important role for ocean warming and increased ice-shelf melt in Antarctic sea-ice expansion

R Bintanja, GJ van Oldenborgh, SS Drijfhout… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in sea ice significantly modulate climate change because of its high reflective
and strong insulating nature. In contrast to Arctic sea ice, sea ice surrounding Antarctica …

Indian‐Atlantic interocean exchange: Dynamics, estimation and impact

WPM de Ruijter, A Biastoch, SS Drijfhout… - Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Interocean exchange of heat and salt around South Africa is thought to be a key link in the
maintenance of the global overturning circulation of the ocean. It takes place at the Agulhas …

The modern and glacial overturning circulation in the Atlantic ocean in PMIP coupled model simulations

SL Weber, SS Drijfhout, A Abe-Ouchi… - Climate of the …, 2007 - cp.copernicus.org
This study analyses the response of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC)
to LGM forcings and boundary conditions in nine PMIP coupled model simulations, including …

Historical and idealized climate model experiments: an intercomparison of Earth system models of intermediate complexity

M Eby, AJ Weaver, K Alexander, K Zickfeld… - Climate of the …, 2013 - cp.copernicus.org
Both historical and idealized climate model experiments are performed with a variety of Earth
system models of intermediate complexity (EMICs) as part of a community contribution to …

Response of the Atlantic overturning circulation to South Atlantic sources of buoyancy

W Weijer, WPM De Ruijter, A Sterl… - Global and Planetary …, 2002 - Elsevier
The heat and salt input from the Indian to Atlantic Oceans by Agulhas Leakage is found to
influence the Atlantic overturning circulation in a low-resolution Ocean General Circulation …

Surface warming hiatus caused by increased heat uptake across multiple ocean basins

SS Drijfhout, AT Blaker, SA Josey… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The first decade of the 21st century was characterized by a hiatus in global surface warming.
Using ocean model hindcasts and reanalyses we show that heat uptake between the …

The stability of the MOC as diagnosed from model projections for pre-industrial, present and future climates

SS Drijfhout, SL Weber, E van der Swaluw - Climate Dynamics, 2011 - Springer
The stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC) is investigated for
various climate scenario runs, using data from the CMIP3 archive of coupled atmosphere-ocean …