AMOC decadal variability in Earth system models: Mechanisms and climate impacts

• Main Author: Fedorov, Alexey
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1378474; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1378474; https://doi.org/10.2172/1378474

This is the final report for the project titled "AMOC decadal variability in Earth system models: Mechanisms and climate impacts". The central goal of this one-year research project was to understand the mechanisms of decadal and multi-decadal variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) within a hierarchy of climate models ranging from realistic ocean GCMs to Earth system models. The AMOC is a key element of ocean circulation responsible for oceanic transport of heat from low to high latitudes and controlling, to a large extent, climate variations in the North Atlantic. The questions of the AMOC stability, variability and predictability, directly relevant to the questions of climate predictability, were at the center of the research work.