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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Competition between global warming and an abrupt collapse of the AMOC in Earth’s energy imbalance
Beteiligte:
Drijfhout, Sybren
Erschienen:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015
Erschienen in:
Scientific Reports, 5 (2015) 1
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1038/srep14877
ISSN:
2045-2322
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Beschreibung:
AbstractA collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) leads to global cooling through fast feedbacks that selectively amplify the response in the Northern Hemisphere (NH). How such cooling competes with global warming has long been a topic for speculation, but was never addressed using a climate model. Here it is shown that global cooling due to a collapsing AMOC obliterates global warming for a period of 15–20 years. Thereafter, the global mean temperature trend is reversed and becomes similar to a simulation without an AMOC collapse. The resulting surface warming hiatus lasts for 40–50 years. Global warming and AMOC-induced NH cooling are governed by similar feedbacks, giving rise to a global net radiative imbalance of similar sign, although the former is associated with surface warming, the latter with cooling. Their footprints in outgoing longwave and absorbed shortwave radiation are very distinct, making attribution possible.