Bistability of the Atlantic overturning circulation in a global climate model and links to ocean freshwater transport

By Ed Hawkins, L. Allison, J. Gregory, T. Woollings, Holger Pohlmann, B. D. de Cuevas. 2011

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Citations in the corpus

• A mathematical theory of climate sensitivity or, How to deal with both anthropogenic forcing and natural variability? (2015, background): “, 2011) and ocean reanalyses (Hawkins et al., 2011) confirm that the Atlantic Ocean’s THC is actually in this regime at the present time.”
• Tipping elements and climate–economic shocks: Pathways toward integrated assessment (2016, methodology): “AMOC also exhibits hysteresis: in order to restore the circulation once the system collapses, freshwater forcing must be reduced below a threshold that is smaller than the threshold originally required to cause the collapse [Rahmstorf, 1996, 2005; Hawkins et al., 2011].”
• The physics of climate variability and climate change (2019, background): “stability of the THC for (a) Earth models of intermediate complexity, reproduced with permission from Rahmstorf et al. (2005); and (b) for an IPCC-class climate model, reproduced with permission from Hawkins et al. (2011). Parameter controlling the freshwater input in the North Atlantic basin on the”
• Observations, inferences, and mechanisms of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review (2016, background): “3), then the AMOC is in the bistable regime [Rahmstorf , 1996; Schaeffer et al., 2002; de Vries and Weber, 2005; Dijkstra, 2007; Huisman et al., 2010; Hawkins et al., 2011; Drijfhout et al., 2011; Weaver et al., 2012; Deshayes et al., 2013; Liu and Liu, 2014].”
• Interacting tipping elements increase risk of climate domino effects under global warming (2020, methodology): “More complex Earth system models including a fully implicit ocean model (Huisman et al., 2010), Earth system models of intermediate complexity (EMICs, e.g. CLIMBER; Rahmstorf et al., 2005) and an atmosphere–ocean general circulation model (AOGCM, e.g. the FAMOUS model; Hawkins et al., 2011) have sho”