Increased risk of a shutdown of ocean convection posed by warm North Atlantic summers

A shutdown of ocean convection in the subpolar North Atlantic, triggered by enhanced melting over Greenland, is regarded as a potential transition point into a fundamentally different climate regime1,2,3. Noting that a key uncertainty for future convection resides in the relative importance of melti...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Climate Change
Main Authors: Oltmanns, Marilena, Karstensen, Johannes, Fischer, Jürgen
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Research 2018
Subjects:
Online Access:https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/42773/
https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/42773/1/s41558-018-0105-1.pdf
https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/42773/7/submitted.pdf
https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/42773/8/supplementary.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0105-1