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Spatial fingerprint and magnitude of changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during marine isotope stage 3
- Source :
- Geophysical Research Letters (0094-8276) (Amer Geophysical Union), 2015-03, Vol. 42, N. 6, P. 1903-1911
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2015.
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Abstract
- Pronounced millennial-scale climate variability during marine isotope stage 3 (MIS3) is considered to be linked to changes in the state of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), i.e., a warm interstadial/cold stadial state corresponds to a strong/weak AMOC. Based on a series of freshwater hosing/extraction experiments with the state-of-the-art Community Climate System Model version 3, we construct a global spatial fingerprint of oceanic temperature anomalies in response to AMOC changes under MIS3 boundary conditions. Highest sensitivity to AMOC changes, especially in summer, is found in northeastern North Atlantic sea surface temperature, but a characteristic temperature fingerprint is also found at subsurface levels. After testing significance of the linear sea surface temperature (SST)-AMOC regressions, the model results are combined with paleo-SST records to estimate the magnitude of millennial-scale Dansgaard-Oeschger AMOC variations during MIS3. The results suggest a mean difference in AMOC strength between interstadial and (non-Heinrich) stadial states of 9.21.2Sv (1 sigma).
- Subjects :
- Marine isotope stage
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
global climate modeling
Magnitude (mathematics)
Dansgaard-Oeschger events
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
01 natural sciences
Mean difference
Sea surface temperature
Geophysics
Shutdown of thermohaline circulation
13. Climate action
Climatology
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Community Climate System Model
14. Life underwater
Stadial
Geology
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Details
- ISSN :
- 19448007 and 00948276
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....993dd259f70b6a4f8ef079e41d925d8e