The relationship between the thermohaline circulation and climate variability

• Published in: Chinese Science Bulletin
• Main Authors: Zhou, TJ, Zhang, XH, Wang, SW
• Other Authors: Zhou, TJ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Atmospher Phys, State Key Lab Atmospher Sci & Geophys Fluid Dynam, LASG, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China., Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Atmospher Phys, State Key Lab Atmospher Sci & Geophys Fluid Dynam, LASG, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China., Peking Univ, Dept Geophys, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China.
• Format: Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 科学通报 英文版 2000
• Subjects: thermohaline circulation; North Atlantic Oscillation climate variability; MODEL; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; North atlantic Thermohaline circulation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/213430; https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02884990

The long-term integration with the Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System model of the State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics(IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences has been used in the investigations on the relationship between the thermohaline circulation and climate variability. The results show that the strength of the North Atlantic Thermohaline circulation (THC) is negatively correlated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Based on this kind of relationship, and also the instrument-measured climate record such as air pressure and sea surface temperature, the activity of the thermohaline circulation during the 20th century has been evaluated. The inferred variations of the strength of the THC is that, during two multi-decadal periods of 1867-1903 and 1934-1972, the THC is estimated to have been running stronger, whereas during the two periods of 1904-1933 and 1973-1994, it appears to have been weaker. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000086835800020&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701 Multidisciplinary Sciences SCI(E) 10 ARTICLE 11 1052-1056 45