Ocean circulation mechanisms and impacts : past and future changes of meridional overturning /

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Group Author: Schmittner, Andreas.; Chiang, John C. H.; Hemming, Sidney R.
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Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: Geophysical monograph series, 173
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1029/GM173
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781118666241 (electronic bk.)
1118666240 (electronic bk.)
9781118672518 (electronic bk.)
1118672518 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: GC228
CLC: P731.27
Contents: Introduction: the ocean's meridional overturning circulation / Andreas Schmittner, John CH Chiang, Sidney R Hemming -- Discovery and quantification of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: the importance of 25ÀN / Hannah R Longworth, Harry L Bryden -- A simple theory of the pycnocline and overturning revisited / Anand Gnanadesikan, Agatha M De Boer, Bryan K Mignone -- Buoyancy-driven flow and nature of vertical mixing in a zonally averaged model / Olivier Marchal, Charles Jackson, Johan Nilsson, André Paul, Thomas F Stocker -- The past and future ocean circulation from a contemporary perspective / Carl Wunsch -- Present-day manifestation of the Nordic Seas overflows / Detlef Quadfasel, Rolf Käse -- Circulation and deep water export of the subpolar North Atlantic during the 1990's / Friedrich A Schott, Peter Brandt -- Strength and variability of the deep limb of the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation from chlorofluorocarbon inventories / William M Smethie, Deborah A Lebel, Rana A Fine, Monika Rhein, Dagmar Kieke -- Decadal to centennial variability of the Atlantic from observations and models / Thomas L Delworth, Rong Zhang, Michael E Mann -- Decadal to multidecadal variability of the Atlantic Moc: mechanisms and predictability / M Latif, C W Böning, J Willebrand, A Biastoch, F Alvarez-Garcia, N Keenlyside, H Pohlmann -- Is the frequency of abrupt climate change modulated by the orbital insolation? / J A Rial, M Yang -- C reservoir ages show deglacial changes in ocean currents and carbon cycle / Michael Sarnthein, Pieter M Grootes, James P Kennett, Marie-Josee Nadeau -- Phasing of millennial climate events and northeast Atlantic deep-water temperature change since 50 Ka Bp / L C Skinner, H Elderfield, M Hall -- Mechanisms for an ~7-Kyr climate and sea-level oscillation during marine isotope stage 3 / Peter U Clark, Steven W Hostetler, Nicklas G Pisias, Andreas Schmittner, Katrin J Meissner -- North Atlantic intermediate depth variability during the younger dryas: evidence from benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and the Gfdl R30 coupled climate model / Rosemarie E Came, William B Curry, Delia W Oppo, Anthony J Broccoli, Ronald J Stouffer, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz -- Musings about the connection between thermohaline circulation and climate / Wallace S Broecker -- Millennial-scale interhemispheric asymmetry of low-latitude precipitation: speleothem evidence and possible high-latitude forcing / Xianfeng Wang, R Lawrence Edwards, Augusto S Auler, Hai Cheng, Emi Ito -- Adjustment of the global climate to an abrupt slowdown of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation / Wei Cheng, Cecilia M Bitz, John C H Chiang -- Impact of the ocean's overturning circulation on atmospheric CO / Andreas Schmittner, Edward J Brook, Jinho Ahn -- Antarctic stratification, atmospheric water vapor, and Heinrich events: a hypothesis for Late Pleistocene deglaciations / Daniel M Sigman, Agatha M De Boer, Gerald H Haug -- Response of the meridional overturning circulation during differing pathways toward greenhouse gas stabilization / F O Bryan, N Nakashiki, Y Yoshida, K Maruyama -- Projected strengthening of the southern ocean winds: some implications for the deep ocean circulation / Oleg A Saenko -- Effect of the Greenland ice-sheet melting on the response and stability of the Amoc in the next centuries / Didier Swingedouw, Pascale Braconnot.