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

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Caesar,  Levke
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

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Rahmstorf,  Stefan
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

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


Cite as: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_25374
Abstract
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.