On the stability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and its climate impact during Late Neogene

• Main Author: Zhang, Xiao
• Other Authors: Schulz, Michael, Lohmann, Gerrit
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Bremen 2014
• Subjects: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation; Climate instability; State-of-the-art model simulation; 550; 550 Earth sciences and geology; ddc:550; Greenland; Pacific; Indian; Kya; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/748; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00104052-12

This thesis focused on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) stability and global climate responses of an altered AMOC in the late Neogene by performing freshwater hosing/extraction computer simulations, using both intermediate complexity climate models and state-of-the-art coupled...