Towards a quantitative understanding of millennial-scale Antarctic Warming Events

• Main Authors: Axel Timmermann, Laurie Menviel, Yuko Okumura, Annalisa Schilla, Ute Merkel, Oliver Timm, Aixue Hu, Michael Schulz
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Antarctic; Ross Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Pacific; Byrd; Marie Byrd Land; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.226.919; http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/assets/osgc/fy10_201704.pdf

The interhemispheric temperature response to a meltwater-induced weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is characterized by a Northern Hemispheric cooling and a Southern Hemispheric warming. This so-called bipolar seesaw pattern explains many millennialscale features ide...