The evolution of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and its 
implications for surface warming

Caesar, Levke

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The evolution of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and its implications for surface warming

Caesar, L. (2019): The evolution of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and its implications for surface warming, PhD Thesis, Potsdam : Universität Potsdam, 119 p.

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Caesar, Levke¹, Autor
Rahmstorf, Stefan¹, Gutachter
Drijfhout, Sybren², Gutachter
Schmittner, Andreas², Gutachter

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1Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, ou_persistent13
2External Organizations, ou_persistent22

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Schlagwörter: Dissertation, Universität Potsdam, 2019

Zusammenfassung: The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is likely the most well-known system of ocean currents on Earth, redistributing heat, nutrients and carbon over a large part of the Earth’s surface and aﬀecting global climate as a result. Due to enhanced freshwater ﬂuxes into the subpolar North Atlantic as a response to global warming, the AMOC is expected, and may have already started, to weaken and these changes will likely have global impacts. It is therefore of considerable relevance to improve our understanding of past and future AMOC changes. My thesis tries to answer some of the open questions in this ﬁeld by giving strong evidence that the AMOC has already weakened over the last century, by narrowing future projections of this slowdown and by studying the impacts on global surface warming.