Global Climatic Impacts of a Collapse of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation

By M. Vellinga, R. Wood. 2002

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Climate Response to External Sources of Freshwater: North Atlantic versus the Southern Ocean (2007, methodology): “Also, given the sensitivity of the results to the exact details of the freshwater perturbation locations, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, a more realistic scenario must be constructed to explore these questions.”
Is the thermohaline circulation changing (2006, background): “As shown by a host of global climate model studies (e.g., Manabe and Stouffer 1988; Vellinga and Wood 2002), variations of the MOC on multidecadal and longer time scales are accompanied by a characteristic interhemispheric SST anomaly pattern, with anomalies of opposite signs in the North and South ”
Meridional coherence of the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (2007, background): “[2] It has been shown that the collapse of the North Atlantic MOC could have dramatic consequences for northern hemisphere climate, particularly for Northwest Europe [Vellinga and Wood, 2002; Wood et al., 2003].”
Energetic Constraints on the Position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (2013, background): “…variations caused by the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, can lead to shifts of the ITCZ, generally away from a cooling and toward a warming hemisphere (e.g., Vellinga and Wood 2002; Chiang et al. 2003; Chiang and Bitz 2005; Broccoli et al. 2006; Yoshimori and Broccoli 2008).”
Tipping elements and climate–economic shocks: Pathways toward integrated assessment (2016, background): “…causes strong cooling in Europe, weaker cooling more broadly in the Northern Hemisphere, warming in the Southern Hemisphere, a southward shift in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, and sea-level rise in the North Atlantic [Vellinga and Wood, 2002; Levermann et al., 2013; Jackson et al., 2015].”
A hemispheric mechanism for the atlantic multidecadal oscillation (2007, result): “The projection of a large THC change on the 1000-hPa height anomalies [December–February (DJF)], as results from the Third Hadley Centre Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere General Circulation Model (HadCM3), has an almost identical structure with that of EOF4 ( Vellinga and Wood 2002, their Fig. 5). Furtherm”
A signature of persistent natural thermohaline circulation cycles in observed climate (2005, background): “2 PW at 30 N) [Ganachaud and Wunsch, 2000] to warm the Northern Hemisphere by several C [Vellinga and Wood, 2002].”
A Review of the Role of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and Associated Climate Impacts (2019, background): “…pattern also resembles that following an abrupt change in the AMOC and associated Atlantic meridional heat transport in CGCMs (e.g., Dahl et al., 2005; Dong & Sutton, 2002, 2007; LeGrande et al., 2006; Stouffer et al., 2006; Timmermann et al., 2007; Vellinga & Wood, 2002; Zhang & Delworth, 2005).”
Vulnerable or Resilient? A Multi-Scale Assessment of Climate Impacts and Vulnerability in Norway (2004, background): “It is thus possible that a weakening of the ocean current may result in new periods of climatic instability in Norway and other areas, and possibly a negative feedback in terms of temperature changes (Davies et al., 2001; Vellinga and Wood, 2002).”
The stability of the MOC as diagnosed from model projections for pre-industrial, present and future climates (2011, background): “A shut-down of the MOC would have large climate impacts, with pronounced cooling over the North Atlantic and warming in the Southern Hemisphere (Vellinga and Wood 2002; Drijfhout 2010).”
Mechanism of interdecadal thermohaline circulation variability in a coupled ocean : Atmosphere GCM (2005, background): “The appearance of this SST dipole is notable because 1) other studies of the response to THC changes (e.g., Yang 1999; Dong and Sutton, 2002a; Vellinga and Wood 2002) have found a similar feature in the SST, and 2) the atmosphere is known to be very sensitive to fluctuations in the cross-equatorial ”
Observations, inferences, and mechanisms of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review (2016, background): “Vellinga and Wu [2004] propose that centennial AMOC variability in the Hadley Centre Coupled Model version 3 (HadCM3) results from interactions between the AMOC, the position of the ITCZ, and tropical salinity anomalies.”
A Theory for the Surface Atlantic Response to Thermohaline Variability (2002, background): “Changes in thermohaline circulation strength could therefore have a significant impact on climate ( Vellinga and Wood 2002, hereafter VW).”
Effects of global climate change on marine and estuarine fishes and fisheries (2004, background): “, 2004), many global climate change models suggest weakening, and possibly complete breakdown, of the thermohaline circulation, particularly in the Atlantic Ocean (Bernal, 1993; Manabe et al., 1994; Sarmiento et al., 1998; Plattner et al., 2001; Vellinga and Wood, 2002).”