The dynamics of learning about a climate threshold

• Published in: Climate Dynamics
• Main Authors: Keller, K., McInerney, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag 2008
• Subjects: Keller; Klaus; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/84610; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-007-0290-5

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions may trigger threshold responses of the climate system. One relevant example of such a potential threshold response is a shutdown of the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC). Numerous studies have analyzed the problem of early MOC change detec...