Multidecadal Thermohaline Circulation Variability Driven by Atmospheric Surface Flux Forcing

By T. Delworth, R. Greatbatch. 2000

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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NAO implicated as a predictor of Northern Hemisphere mean temperature multidecadal variability (2013, unknown): “[ 8 ] The NAO in ﬂ uence on the AMO has been discussed extensively in numerical model studies [ Delworth et al ., 1993; Visbeck et al ., 1998; Delworth and Greatbatch , 2000; Eden and Jung , 2001; Eden and Greatbatch , 2003].”
A delayed oscillator model for the quasi-periodic multidecadal variability of the NAO (2015, unknown): “Previous studies have suggested that such weather noise is needed to excite and energize the North Atlantic multidecadal variability (Delworth and Greatbatch 2000).”
Instability of the Thermohaline Ocean Circulation on Interdecadal Timescales (2002, unknown): “In this way, the importance of instabilities of the thermohaline circulation can be assessed, which may lead to modiﬁcations of current theories which attribute a substiantial role to the low-frequency atmospheric variability (Delworth and Mann, 2000; Delworth and Greatbatch, 2000).”
Implications of the Recent Trend in the Arctic/North Atlantic Oscillation for the North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation (2000, background): “4, consistent with the results of Eden and Jung (2000) and Delworth and Greatbatch (2000); water flux anomalies are of secondary importance, and the wind stress anomalies have no discernible influence on the THC. Note, however, that the AO-related winds in the model are somewhat more zonal than…”
Simulated variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (2004, background): “Weaver and Valcke (1998) concluded that the decadal AMOC variability is a mode of the full coupled system, while Delworth and Greatbatch (2000) found that the variability should largely be viewed as an oceanic response to the atmospheric forcing, although air-sea coupling appears to modify the ampli”
Arctic-North Atlantic Interactions and Multidecadal Variability of the Meridional Overturning Circulation (2005, background): “Following the approach of Delworth and Greatbatch (2000), we assessed the question of whether the multidecadal variability can be viewed as a coupled air–sea mode.”
External forcing as a metronome for Atlantic multidecadal variability (2010, background): “21 ) on the North Atlantic Ocean, and notably on the AMOC, has been extensively discussed in the literatur”
A Review of the Role of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and Associated Climate Impacts (2019, background): “…AMOC variability associated with changes in NADW formation is a dynamic ocean response to the atmospheric forcing (e.g., Danabasoglu, 2008; Delworth & Greatbatch, 2000; Dong & Sutton, 2005; Eden & Jung, 2001; Griffies & Tziperman, 1995; Mecking et al., 2014) or an ocean‐atmosphere coupled…”
Observations, inferences, and mechanisms of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review (2016, background): “…the maximum of the mean AMOC [Knight et al., 2005; Zhang, 2008], (2) time series of the maximum AMOC in the North Atlantic [Delworth et al., 1993; Delworth and Greatbatch, 2000; Mignot and Frankignoul, 2005; Guemas and Salas-Mélia, 2008; Danabasoglu, 2008; Danabasoglu et al., 2012], and (3) the…”
A Study of the Interaction of the North Atlantic Oscillation with Ocean Circulation (2001, background): “Direct observations of the overturning circulation are not available but models show that the thermohaline circulation is sensitive to dipole NAO forcing (Delworth and Greatbatch 2000).”
Mechanism of interdecadal thermohaline circulation variability in a coupled ocean : Atmosphere GCM (2005, methodology): “The mechanism we have identified in the HadCM3 model has many similarities to that described by Del-worth et al. (1993), and further discussed by Delworth and Greatbatch (2000), in the GFDL model. particular, the mechanism for phase reversal summarized in Fig.”
A multi-model comparison of Atlantic multidecadal variability (2014, unknown): “This is in contrast to evidence from observational studies and a few modeling studies (Eden and Jung 2001; Delworth and Greatbatch 2000; Latif et al. 2006; Latif and Keenlyside 2011).”
System Design and Evaluation of Coupled Ensemble Data Assimilation for Global Oceanic Climate Studies (2007, background): “Estimation and prediction of the high-latitude oceans and the global ocean circulation may also benefit from ADA, given the link between atmospheric NAO and the MOC (Delworth and Greatbatch 2000; Delworth and Dixon 2000).”