Feedback mechanisms affecting the thermohaline circulation
Changes in high latitude surface salinity have a strong effect on the North Atlantic Deep Water Formation (NADWF) which appears to be very important in driving the global thermohaline conveyor belt. Natural variations of sea surface salinity and sea ice have been observed in the North Atlantic, name...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:3949 2024-09-15T17:50:13+00:00 Feedback mechanisms affecting the thermohaline circulation Lohmann, Gerrit Gerdes, Rüdiger Chen, D. 1996 https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/3949/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.14526 unknown Lohmann, G. orcid:0000-0003-2089-733X , Gerdes, R. and Chen, D. (1996) Feedback mechanisms affecting the thermohaline circulation , Proceedings of the ACSYS conference on the Dynamics of the Arctic Climate System, Goeteborg, Sweden . hdl:10013/epic.14526 EPIC3Proceedings of the ACSYS conference on the Dynamics of the Arctic Climate System, Goeteborg, Sweden, pp. 420-424 Conference notRev 1996 ftawi 2024-06-24T03:54:11Z Changes in high latitude surface salinity have a strong effect on the North Atlantic Deep Water Formation (NADWF) which appears to be very important in driving the global thermohaline conveyor belt. Natural variations of sea surface salinity and sea ice have been observed in the North Atlantic, namely the Great Salt Anomaly (GSA) of the late sixties and seventies. When dealing with climate variability one must consider the sensitivity of the climate system to perturbations.In order to include the atmospheric heat transport mechanisms we coupled an atmosphere energy balance model with a 3-D ocean general circulation model which includes a thermodynamic sea ice model. We explore the feedback mechanisms in the ocean-atmosphere-sea ice system affecting the thermohaline circulation (THC) under perturbations in sea surface salinity at high latitudes. Conference Object Arctic North Atlantic Deep Water North Atlantic Sea ice Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) |
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Changes in high latitude surface salinity have a strong effect on the North Atlantic Deep Water Formation (NADWF) which appears to be very important in driving the global thermohaline conveyor belt. Natural variations of sea surface salinity and sea ice have been observed in the North Atlantic, namely the Great Salt Anomaly (GSA) of the late sixties and seventies. When dealing with climate variability one must consider the sensitivity of the climate system to perturbations.In order to include the atmospheric heat transport mechanisms we coupled an atmosphere energy balance model with a 3-D ocean general circulation model which includes a thermodynamic sea ice model. We explore the feedback mechanisms in the ocean-atmosphere-sea ice system affecting the thermohaline circulation (THC) under perturbations in sea surface salinity at high latitudes. |
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Lohmann, Gerrit Gerdes, Rüdiger Chen, D. Feedback mechanisms affecting the thermohaline circulation |
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Lohmann, Gerrit Gerdes, Rüdiger Chen, D. |
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Feedback mechanisms affecting the thermohaline circulation |
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Feedback mechanisms affecting the thermohaline circulation |
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Arctic North Atlantic Deep Water North Atlantic Sea ice |
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EPIC3Proceedings of the ACSYS conference on the Dynamics of the Arctic Climate System, Goeteborg, Sweden, pp. 420-424 |
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Lohmann, G. orcid:0000-0003-2089-733X , Gerdes, R. and Chen, D. (1996) Feedback mechanisms affecting the thermohaline circulation , Proceedings of the ACSYS conference on the Dynamics of the Arctic Climate System, Goeteborg, Sweden . hdl:10013/epic.14526 |
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