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Weak 21st-century AMOC response to Greenland meltwater in a strongly eddying ocean model
Oliver Mehling, Henk A. Dijkstra
Climate models project that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) will weaken in the 21st century, but the magnitude is highly uncertain. Some of this uncertainty…
Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change
René M. van Westen, René M. van Westen, Reyk Börner +2
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a tipping element of the climate system. The current estimate of the global warming threshold for the onset of an AMOC col…
The Effects of a Constructed Closure of the Bering Strait on AMOC Tipping Behavior
Jelle Soons, Henk A. Dijkstra
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a major tipping element in the present-day climate, and could potentially collapse under sufficient freshwater or CO2-forc…
Physics of an AMOC Overshoot in a Box Model
Jelle Soons, Tobias Grafke, René M. van Westen +1
Recently the global average temperature has temporarily exceeded the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement, and so an overshoot of various climate tipping elements becomes increasingl…
West Antarctic Meltwater can Prevent an AMOC Collapse
Sacha Sinet, Anna S. von der Heydt, Henk A. Dijkstra
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and polar ice sheets are coupled tipping elements, allowing for potential cascading tipping events in which tipping is facili…
Feedback Processes causing an AMOC Collapse in the Community Earth System Model
Elian Vanderborght, René M. van Westen, Henk A. Dijkstra
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is recognized as a tipping element within the global climate system. Central to its tipping behavior is the salt-advection fe…