Thermohaline circulations and global climate change. Final report

• Main Author: Hanson, H.P.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; CLIMATIC CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AIR-WATER INTERACTIONS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; FORCING FUNCTIONS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SINKS; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10117580; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10117580; https://doi.org/10.2172/10117580

This research is ultimately concerned with investigating the hypothesis that changes in surface thermal and hydrological forcing of the North Atlantic, changes that might be expected to accompany CO2-induced global warming, could result in ocean-atmosphere interactions` exerting a positive feedback on the climate system. This report concerns research conducted with funding from the Carbon Dioxide Research Program (now the Global Climate Change Program) of the US Department of Energy via grant no. DE-FG02-90ER61019 during the period 15 July 1990 - 14 July 1994. This was a three-year award, extended to a fourth year (15 July 1993 - 14 July 1994) via a no-cost extension. It is important to emphasize that this award has been renewed for an additional two years (15 July 1993 - 14 July 1995) via grant no. DE-FG03-93ER61646 (with the same title). Because the project was originally envisioned to be a five-year effort, many of the important results and conclusions will be available for the Final Report of that second award. This report therefore concerns mainly preliminary conclusions and a discussion of progress toward understanding the central hypothesis of the research.