Examining the Effects of Greenland Ice Sheet Melting and Atlantic Meridional Shutdown on the Climate of Scandinavia and the British Isles

• Main Author: Lemburg, Tyler
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2019
• Subjects: climatology; climate modeling; Earth Sciences; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Greenland; Rowe; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geoscidiss/124; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/geoscidiss/article/1127/viewcontent/Thesis.pdf

Earth’s climate has been rapidly changing over the last hundred years, and its global average temperature is rising. However, climate change is far more complicated than a simple increase in temperature. For example, it is theorized that certain regions of Earth, including Scandinavia and the Britis...