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Atmosphere?Cocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) predict a weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) in response to anthropogenic forcing of climate, but there is a large model uncertainty in the magnitude of the predicted change. The weakening of the AMOC is generally understood to be the result of increased buoyancy input to the north Atlantic in a warmer climate, leading to reduced convection and deep water formation. Consistent with this idea, model analyses have shown empirical relationships between the AMOC and the meridional density gradient, but this link is not direct because the large-scale ocean circulation is essentially geostrophic, making currents and pressure gradients orthogonal. Analysis of the budget of kinetic energy (KE) instead of momentum has the advantage of excluding the dominant geostrophic balance. Diagnosis of the KE balance of the HadCM3 AOGCM and its low-resolution version FAMOUS shows that KE is supplied to the ocean by the wind and dissipated by viscous forces in the global mean of the steady-state control climate, and the circulation does work against the pressure-gradient force, mainly in the Southern Ocean. In the Atlantic Ocean, however, the pressure-gradient force does work on the circulation, especially in the high-latitude regions of deep water formation. During CO 2-forced climate change, we demonstrate a very good temporal correlation between the AMOC strength and the rate of KE generation by the pressure-gradient force in 50?C70°N of the Atlantic Ocean in each of nine contemporary AOGCMs, supporting a buoyancy-driven interpretation of AMOC changes. To account for this, we describe a conceptual model, which offers an explanation of why AOGCMs with stronger overturning in the control climate tend to have a larger weakening under CO 2 increase. 相似文献
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The response of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre (SPG) to a persistent positive (or negative) phase of the North Atlantic oscillation (NAO) is investigated using an ocean general circulation model forced with idealized atmospheric reanalysis fields. The integrations are analyzed with reference to a base-line integration for which the model is forced with idealized fields representing a neutral state of the NAO. In the positive NAO case, the results suggest that the well-known cooling and strengthening of the SPG are, after about 10 years, replaced by a warming and subsequent weakening of the SPG. The latter changes are caused by the advection of warm water from the subtropical gyre (STG) region, driven by a spin-up of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and the effect of an anomalous wind stress curl in the northeastern North Atlantic, which counteracts the local buoyancy forcing of the SPG. In the negative NAO case, however, the SPG response does not involve a sign reversal, but rather shows a gradual weakening throughout the integration. The asymmetric SPG-response to the sign of persistent NAO-like forcing and the different time scales involved demonstrate strong non-linearity in the North Atlantic Ocean circulation response to atmospheric forcing. The latter finding indicates that analysis based on the arithmetic difference between the two NAO-states, e.g. NAO+ minus NAO?, may hide important aspects of the ocean response to atmospheric forcing. 相似文献
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Observations show a multidecadal signal in the North Atlantic ocean, but the underlying mechanism and cause of its timescale remain unknown. Previous studies have suggested that it may be driven by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), which is the dominant pattern of winter atmospheric variability. To further address this issue, the global ocean general circulation model, Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean (NEMO), is driven using a 2,000 years long white noise forcing associated with the NAO. Focusing on key ocean circulation patterns, we show that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and Sub-polar gyre (SPG) strength both have enhanced power at low frequencies but no dominant timescale, and thus provide no evidence for a oscillatory ocean-only mode of variability. Instead, both indices respond linearly to the NAO forcing, but with different response times. The variability of the AMOC at 30°N is strongly enhanced on timescales longer than 90 years, while that of the SPG strength starts increasing at 15 years. The different response characteristics are confirmed by constructing simple statistical models that show AMOC and SPG variability can be related to the NAO variability of the previous 53 and 10 winters, respectively. Alternatively, the AMOC and the SPG strength can be reconstructed with Auto-regressive (AR) models of order seven and five, respectively. Both statistical models reconstruct interannual and multidecadal AMOC variability well, while on the other hand, the AR(5) reconstruction of the SPG strength only captures multidecadal variability. Using these methods to reconstruct ocean variables can be useful for prediction and model intercomparision. 相似文献
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The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation(AMOC)transports a large amount of heat to northern high latitudes,playing an important role in the global climate change.Investigation of the freshwater perturbation in North Atlantic(NA)has become one of the hot topics in the recent years.In this study,the mechanism and pathway of meridional ocean heat transport(OHT)under the enhanced freshwater input to the northern high latitudes in the Atlantic are investigated by an ocean-sea ice-atmosphere coupled model.The results show that the anomalous OHT in the freshwater experiment(FW)is dominated by the meridional circulation kinetic and ocean thermal processes.In the FW,OHT drops down during the period of weakened AMOC while the upper tropical ocean turns warmer due to the retained NA warm currents.Conversely,OHT recovers as the AMOC recovers,and the mechanism can be generalized as:1)increased ocean heat content in the tropical Southern Ocean during the early integration provides the thermal condition for the recovery of OHT in NA;2)the OHT from the Southern Ocean enters the NA through the equator alongthe deep Ekman layer;3)in NA,the recovery of OHT appears mainly along the isopycnic layers of 24.70-25.77 below the mixing layer.It is then transported into the mixing layer from the "outcropping points"innorthern high latitudes,and finally released to the atmosphere by the ocean-atmosphere heat exchange. 相似文献
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We study the impact of horizontal resolution in setting the North Atlantic gyre circulation and representing the ocean–atmosphere interactions that modulate the low-frequency variability in the region. Simulations from five state-of-the-art climate models performed at standard and high-resolution as part of the High-Resolution Model Inter-comparison Project (HighResMIP) were analysed. In some models, the resolution is enhanced in the atmospheric and oceanic components whereas, in some other models, the resolution is increased only in the atmosphere. Enhancing the horizontal resolution from non-eddy to eddy-permitting ocean produces stronger barotropic mass transports inside the subpolar and subtropical gyres. The first mode of inter-annual variability is associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) in all the cases. The rapid ocean response to it consists of a shift in the position of the inter-gyre zone and it is better captured by the non-eddy models. The delayed ocean response consists of an intensification of the subpolar gyre (SPG) after around 3 years of a positive phase of NAO and it is better represented by the eddy-permitting oceans. A lagged relationship between the intensity of the SPG and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is stronger in the cases of the non-eddy ocean. Then, the SPG is more tightly coupled to the AMOC in low-resolution models. 相似文献
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The reversibility of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is investigated in multi-model experiments using global climate models (GCMs) where CO 2 concentrations are increased by 1 or 2 % per annum to 2× or 4× preindustrial conditions. After a period of stabilisation the CO 2 is decreased back to preindustrial conditions. In most experiments when the CO 2 decreases, the AMOC recovers before becoming anomalously strong. This "overshoot" is up to an extra 18.2Sv or 104 % of its preindustrial strength, and the period with an anomalously strong AMOC can last for several hundred years. The magnitude of this overshoot is shown to be related to the build up of salinity in the subtropical Atlantic during the previous period of high CO 2 levels. The magnitude of this build up is partly related to anthropogenic changes in the hydrological cycle. The mechanisms linking the subtropical salinity increase to the subsequent overshoot are analysed, supporting the relationship found. This understanding is used to explain differences seen in some models and scenarios. In one experiment there is no overshoot because there is little salinity build up, partly as a result of model differences in the hydrological cycle response to increased CO 2 levels and partly because of a less aggressive scenario. Another experiment has a delayed overshoot, possibly as a result of a very weak AMOC in that GCM when CO 2 is high. This study identifies aspects of overshoot behaviour that are robust across a multi-model and multi-scenario ensemble, and those that differ between experiments. These results could inform an assessment of the real-world AMOC response to decreasing CO 2. 相似文献
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We investigate the large-scale oceanic features determining the future ice shelf–ocean interaction by analyzing global warming
experiments in a coarse resolution climate model with a comprehensive ocean component. Heat and freshwater fluxes from basal
ice shelf melting (ISM) are parameterized following Beckmann and Goosse [Ocean Model 5(2):157–170, 2003]. Melting sensitivities to the oceanic temperature outside of the ice shelf cavities are varied from linear to quadratic
(Holland et al. in J Clim 21, 2008). In 1% per year CO 2-increase experiments the total freshwater flux from ISM triples to 0.09 Sv in the linear case and more than quadruples to
0.15 Sv in the quadratic case after 140 years at which 4 × 280 ppm = 1,120 ppm was reached. Due to the long response time
of subsurface temperature anomalies, ISM thereafter increases drastically, if CO 2 concentrations are kept constant at 1,120 ppm. Varying strength of the Antarctic circumpolar current (ACC) is crucial for
ISM increase, because southward advection of heat dominates the warming along the Antarctic coast. On centennial timescales
the ACC accelerates due to deep ocean warming north of the current, caused by mixing of heat along isopycnals in the Southern
Ocean (SO) outcropping regions. In contrast to previous studies we find an initial weakening of the ACC during the first 150 years
of warming. This purely baroclinic effect is due to a freshening in the SO which is consistent with present observations.
Comparison with simulations with diagnosed ISM but without its influence on the ocean circulation reveal a number of ISM-related
feedbacks, of which a negative ISM-feedback, due to the ISM-related local oceanic cooling, is the dominant one. 相似文献
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The uptake and storage of anthropogenic carbon in the North Atlantic is investigated using different configurations of ocean
general circulation/carbon cycle models. We investigate how different representations of the ocean physics in the models,
which represent the range of models currently in use, affect the evolution of CO 2 uptake in the North Atlantic. The buffer effect of the ocean carbon system would be expected to reduce ocean CO 2 uptake as the ocean absorbs increasing amounts of CO 2. We find that the strength of the buffer effect is very dependent on the model ocean state, as it affects both the magnitude
and timing of the changes in uptake. The timescale over which uptake of CO 2 in the North Atlantic drops to below preindustrial levels is particularly sensitive to the ocean state which sets the degree
of buffering; it is less sensitive to the choice of atmospheric CO 2 forcing scenario. Neglecting physical climate change effects, North Atlantic CO 2 uptake drops below preindustrial levels between 50 and 300 years after stabilisation of atmospheric CO 2 in different model configurations. Storage of anthropogenic carbon in the North Atlantic varies much less among the different
model configurations, as differences in ocean transport of dissolved inorganic carbon and uptake of CO 2 compensate each other. This supports the idea that measured inventories of anthropogenic carbon in the real ocean cannot
be used to constrain the surface uptake. Including physical climate change effects reduces anthropogenic CO 2 uptake and storage in the North Atlantic further, due to the combined effects of surface warming, increased freshwater input,
and a slowdown of the meridional overturning circulation. The timescale over which North Atlantic CO 2 uptake drops to below preindustrial levels is reduced by about one-third, leading to an estimate of this timescale for the
real world of about 50 years after the stabilisation of atmospheric CO 2. In the climate change experiment, a shallowing of the mixed layer depths in the North Atlantic results in a significant
reduction in primary production, reducing the potential role for biology in drawing down anthropogenic CO 2. 相似文献
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We present results from detailed interviews with 12 leading climate scientists about the possible effects of global climate
change on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The elicitation sought to examine the range of opinions
within the climatic research community about the physical processes that determine the current strength of the AMOC, its future
evolution in a changing climate and the consequences of potential AMOC changes. Experts assign different relative importance
to physical processes which determine the present-day strength of the AMOC as well as to forcing factors which determine its
future evolution under climate change. Many processes and factors deemed important are assessed as poorly known and insufficiently
represented in state-of-the-art climate models. All experts anticipate a weakening of the AMOC under scenarios of increase
of greenhouse gas concentrations. Two experts expect a permanent collapse of the AMOC as the most likely response under a
4×CO 2 scenario. Assuming a global mean temperature increase in the year 2100 of 4 K, eight experts assess the probability of triggering
an AMOC collapse as significantly different from zero, three of them as larger than 40%. Elicited consequences of AMOC reduction
include strong changes in temperature, precipitation distribution and sea level in the North Atlantic area. It is expected
that an appropriately designed research program, with emphasis on long-term observations and coupled climate modeling, would
contribute to substantially reduce uncertainty about the future evolution of the AMOC. 相似文献
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海洋在气候变暖过程中的重要性通常用海洋热吸收来衡量,热吸收的大小影响全球变暖的幅度。本文利用FGOALS-g2、FGOALS-s2(以下分别缩写为g2、s2)两个耦合模式的CO 2浓度以每年1%速率增长(1pctCO 2)试验,评估和分析海洋热吸收与气候敏感度的关系。结果表明:进入海洋净热通量(s2模式大于g2模式)会使得s2模式的海洋热吸收总体比g2模式大;更为重要的是,由于s2模式中的海洋热吸收主要集中在上层,使得耦合模式s2中的瞬态气候响应(TCR,或称气候敏感度)比g2大。当CO 2浓度加倍时,在两个耦合模式中,海洋热吸收的空间分布呈现显著性的差异,s2模式中上层热吸收明显比深层大,上层热吸收主要位于太平洋和印度洋,而g2模式中上层和深层热吸收差别较小,深层主要位于大西洋和北冰洋。进一步研究表明,海洋热吸收分布特征与两个耦合模式海洋环流变化有关。在g2模式中北大西洋经圈翻转环流(AMOC)强度强且深度大,在CO 2浓度加倍时,AMOC减弱小,这样AMOC可将热量带到海洋的深层,增加海洋深层热吸收。而在s2模式中,平均AMOC弱且浅,在CO 2浓度加倍时,AMOC减弱明显,热量不易到达深层,主要集中在海洋上层,对气候敏感度影响更快且更强。海洋环流导致热吸收及其空间差异同时影响到气候敏感度的差异。因此,探讨海洋热吸收与气候敏感度之间的关系,利于明确气候敏感度不确定性的来源。 相似文献
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In the 1960s North Atlantic sea surface temperatures (SST) cooled rapidly. The magnitude of the cooling was largest in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre (SPG), and was coincident with a rapid freshening of the SPG. Here we analyze hindcasts of the 1960s North Atlantic cooling made with the UK Met Office’s decadal prediction system (DePreSys), which is initialised using observations. It is shown that DePreSys captures—with a lead time of several years—the observed cooling and freshening of the North Atlantic SPG. DePreSys also captures changes in SST over the wider North Atlantic and surface climate impacts over the wider region, such as changes in atmospheric circulation in winter and sea ice extent. We show that initialisation of an anomalously weak Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), and hence weak northward heat transport, is crucial for DePreSys to predict the magnitude of the observed cooling. Such an anomalously weak AMOC is not captured when ocean observations are not assimilated (i.e. it is not a forced response in this model). The freshening of the SPG is also dominated by ocean salt transport changes in DePreSys; in particular, the simulation of advective freshwater anomalies analogous to the Great Salinity Anomaly were key. Therefore, DePreSys suggests that ocean dynamics played an important role in the cooling of the North Atlantic in the 1960s, and that this event was predictable. 相似文献
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The long-term adjustment processes of atmosphere and ocean in response to gradually increased atmospheric CO 2 concentration have been analysed in two 850-year integrations with a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model (AOGCM).
In these experiments the CO 2 concentration has been increased to double and four times the initial concentration, respectively, and is kept fixed thereafter.
Three characteristic time scales have been identified: a very fast response associated with processes dominated by the atmospheric
adjustment, an intermediate time scale of a few decades connected with processes in the upper ocean, and adjustment processes
with time scales of centuries and longer due to the inertia of the deep ocean. The latter in particular is responsible for
a still ongoing adjustment of the atmosphere-ocean system at the end of the integrations after 850 years. After 60 years,
at the time of CO 2 doubling, the global mean near-surface air temperature rises by 1.4 K. In spite of the constant CO 2 concentration during the following centuries the warming continues to 2.6 K after 850 years. The behaviour of the quadrupling
run is similar: global mean near-surface air temperature increases by 3.8 K at the time of CO 2 quadrupling and by 4.8 K at the end of the simulation. The thermohaline circulation undergoes remarkable changes. Temporarily,
the North Atlantic overturning circulation weakens by up to 30% in the CO 2 doubling experiment and up to 50% in the CO 2 quadrupling experiment. After reaching the minimum the North Atlantic overturning slowly recovers in both experiments.
Received: 23 August 1999 / Accepted: 27 April 2000 相似文献
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State-of-the-art coupled general circulation models(CGCMs)are used to predict ocean heat uptake(OHU)and sealevel change under global warming.However,the projections of different models vary,resulting in high uncertainty.Much of the inter-model spread is driven by responses to surface heat perturbations.This study mainly focuses on the response of the ocean to a surface heat flux perturbation F,as prescribed by the Flux-Anomaly-Forced Model Intercomparison Project(FAFMIP).The results of ocean model were compared with those of a CGCM with the same ocean component.On the global scale,the changes in global mean temperature,ocean heat content(OHC),and steric sea level(SSL)simulated in the OGCM are generally consistent with CGCM simulations.Differences in changes in ocean temperature,OHC,and SSL between the two models primarily occur in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans(AA)and the Southern Ocean(SO)basins.In addition to the differences in surface heat flux anomalies between the two models,differences in heat exchange between basins also play an important role in the inconsistencies in ocean climate changes in the AA and SO basins.These discrepancies are largely due to both the larger initial value and the greater weakening change of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation(AMOC)in CGCM.The greater weakening of the AMOC in the CGCM is associated with the atmosphere–ocean feedback and the lack of a restoring salinity boundary condition.Furthermore,differences in surface salinity boundary conditions between the two models contribute to discrepancies in SSL changes. 相似文献
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The response of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) to an increase in atmospheric CO 2 concentration is analyzed using the IPSL-CM4 coupled ocean–atmosphere model. Two simulations are integrated for 70 years
with 1%/year increase in CO 2 concentration until 2×CO 2, and are then stabilized for further 430 years. The first simulation takes land-ice melting into account, via a simple parameterization,
which results in a strong freshwater input of about 0.13 Sv at high latitudes in a warmer climate. During this scenario, the
AMOC shuts down. A second simulation does not include this land-ice melting and herein, the AMOC recovers after 200 years.
This behavior shows that this model is close to an AMOC shutdown threshold under global warming conditions, due to continuous
input of land-ice melting. The analysis of the origin of density changes in the Northern Hemisphere convection sites allows
an identification as to the origin of the changes in the AMOC. The processes that decrease the AMOC are the reduction of surface
cooling due to the reduction in the air–sea temperature gradient as the atmosphere warms and the local freshening of convection
sites that results from the increase in local freshwater forcing. Two processes also control the recovery of the AMOC: the
northward advection of positive salinity anomalies from the tropics and the decrease in sea-ice transport through the Fram
Strait toward the convection sites. The quantification of the AMOC related feedbacks shows that the salinity related processes
contribute to a strong positive feedback, while feedback related to temperature processes is negative but remains small as
there is a compensation between heat transport and surface heat flux in ocean–atmosphere coupled model. We conclude that in
our model, AMOC feedbacks amplify land-ice melting perturbation by 2.5. 相似文献
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In this paper, the role of westerly winds at southern high latitudes in global climate is investigated in a fully coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model. In the model, the wind stress south of 40°S is turned off with ocean and atmosphere fully coupled both locally and elsewhere. The coupled model explicitly demonstrates that a shutdown of southern high latitude wind stress induces a general cooling over the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) region, with surface Ekman flow and vertical mixing p... 相似文献
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To study glacial termination and related feedback mechanisms, a continental ice dynamics model is globally and asynchronously
coupled to a physical climate (atmosphere-ocean-sea ice) model. The model performs well under present-day, 11 kaBP (thousand
years before present) and 21 kaBP perpetual forcing. To address the ice-sheet response under the effects of both perpetual
orbital and CO 2 forcing, sensitivity experiments are conducted with two different orbital configurations (11 kaBP and 21 kaBP) and two different
atmospheric CO 2 concentrations (200 ppmv and 280 ppmv). This study reveals that, although both orbital and CO 2 forcing have an impact on ice-sheet maintenance and deglacial processes, and although neither acting alone is sufficient
to lead to complete deglaciation, orbital forcing seems to be more important. The CO 2 forcing has a large impact on climate, not uniformly or zonally over the globe, but concentrated over the continents adjacent
to the North Atlantic. The effect of increased CO 2 (from 200 ppmv to 280 ppmv) on surface air temperature has its peak there in winter associated with a reduction in sea-ice
extent in the northern North Atlantic. These changes are accompanied by an enhancement in the intensity of the meridional
overturning and poleward ocean heat transport in the North Atlantic. On the other hand, the effect of orbital forcing (from
21 kaBP to 11 kaBP) has its peak in summer. Since the summer temperature, rather than winter temperature, is found to be dominant
for the ice-sheet mass balance, orbital forcing has a larger effect than CO 2 forcing in deglaciation. Warm winter sea surface temperature arising from increased CO 2 during the deglaciation contributes to ice-sheet nourishment (negative feedback for ice-sheet retreat) through slightly enhanced
precipitation. However, the precipitation effect is totally overwhelmed by the temperature effect. Our results suggest that
the last deglaciation was initiated through increasing summer insolation with CO 2 providing a powerful feedback.
Received: 22 February 2000 / Accepted: 17 September 2000 相似文献
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Based on LGM experiments with an atmosphere–ocean general circulation model, we systematically investigated the effects of
physical changes in the ocean and induced biological effects as well on the low atmospheric CO 2 concentration (pCO 2) at the last glacial maximum (LGM). Numerical experiments with an oceanic carbon-cycle model showed that pCO 2 was lowered by ~30 ppm in the LGM ocean. Most of the pCO 2 reduction was explained by the change in CO 2 solubility in the ocean due to lower sea surface temperature (SST) during the LGM. Moreover, we found that SST changes in
the high-latitude Northern Atlantic could explain more than one-third of the overall change in pCO 2 induced by global SST change, suggesting an important feedback between the Laurentide ice sheet and pCO 2. 相似文献
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An ocean general circulation model coupled to an energy-moisture balance atmosphere model is used to investigate the sensitivity
of global warming experiments to the parametrisation of sub-grid scale ocean mixing. The climate sensitivity of the coupled
model using three different parametrisations of sub-grid scale mixing is 3°C for a doubling of CO 2 (6°C for a quadrupling of CO 2). This suggests that the ocean has only a weak feedback on global mean surface air temperature although significant regional
differences, notably at high latitudes, exist with different sub-grid scale parametrisations. In the experiment using the
Gent and McWilliams parametrisation for mixing associated with mesoscale eddies, an enhancement of the surface response in
the Southern Ocean is found. This enhancement is largely due to the existence of more realistic sea-ice in the climatological
control integration and the subsequent enhanced ice-albedo feedback upon warming. In accordance with earlier analyses, the
Gent and McWilliams scheme decreases the global efficiency of ocean heat uptake. During the transient phase of all experiments,
the North Atlantic overturning initially weakened but ultimately recovered, surpassing its former strength. This suggests
that in the region around the North Atlantic the ocean acts as a negative feedback on local warming during the transient phase
but a positive feedback at equilibrium. During the transient phase of the experiments with a more sophisticated and realistic
parametrisation of sub-grid scale mixing, warmed Atlantic water was found to penetrate at depth into the Arctic, consistent
with recent observations in the region.
Received: 14 October 1998 / Accepted: 27 April 1999 相似文献
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Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV) is investigated in a millennial control simulation with the Kiel Climate Model (KCM), a coupled atmosphere–ocean–sea ice model. An oscillatory mode with approximately 60 years period and characteristics similar to observations is identified with the aid of three-dimensional temperature and salinity joint empirical orthogonal function analysis. The mode explains 30 % of variability on centennial and shorter timescales in the upper 2,000 m of the North Atlantic. It is associated with changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) of ±1–2 Sv and Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature (SST) of ±0.2 °C. AMV in KCM results from an out-of-phase interaction between horizontal and vertical ocean circulation, coupled through Irminger Sea convection. Wintertime convection in this region is mainly controlled by salinity anomalies transported by the Subpolar Gyre (SPG). Increased (decreased) dense water formation in this region leads to a stronger (weaker) AMOC after 15 years, and this in turn leads to a weaker (stronger) SPG after another 15 years. The key role of salinity variations in the subpolar North Atlantic for AMV is confirmed in a 1,000 year long simulation with salinity restored to model climatology: No low frequency variations in convection are simulated, and the 60 year mode of variability is absent. 相似文献
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海洋中的潮汐混合对大西洋经圈翻转环流AMOC(Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation)模拟的影响是海洋环流模式研究的热点问题之一。本文采用IAP/LASG发展的气候系统海洋模式LICOM(LASG/IAP Climate system Ocean Model)及与海冰耦合模式进行了有无潮汐混合方案的试验,重点探讨了潮汐混合对AMOC强度模拟的影响。结果显示,引入潮汐混合后模拟的AMOC强度极大值比对照试验增加约1倍,更接近RAPID(Rapid Climate Change Programme)观测。而且,潮汐混合试验中模拟的AMOC上层环流深度(3200 m)比对照试验加深1000 m左右,同样更接近RAPID观测。海洋底部的垂直混合增强,使海洋层结变得更加不稳定,加强了北大西洋高纬地区,特别是拉布拉多海等地区的深对流,这是AMOC加强的直接原因。同时,潮汐混合试验中上层海洋环流也加强,增加了中低纬副热带高盐海水向高纬输送,使表层增密,海洋层结更加不稳定,也可以进一步增强AMOC。 相似文献
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