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Swingedouw, D., Braconnot, P. and Marti, O. (2006). Sensitivity of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to the melting from northern glaciers in climate change experiments. Geophysical Research Letters 33: doi: 10.1029/2006GL025765. issn: 0094-8276. |
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A weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in the next century is simulated by most state-of-the-art coupled models but none of them accounted for land-ice melting. Here we evaluate the impact of this melting on future climate projection using the IPSL-CM4 coupled ocean-atmosphere model. For this purpose we use two different versions of the model, one with a crude land-ice melting parameterization, and the other without. The analysis compares results of experiments where atmospheric CO2 increases by 1%/yr, performed with the two versions of this model. The AMOC is reduced by 47% when the melting of land-ice is considered, and represents an extreme melting scenario. This reduction is of 21% without this melting. It is shown that this difference in AMOC impacts the northern hemisphere mostly through the sea-ice cover feedback. |
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Keywords
Biogeosciences, Climate dynamics, Cryosphere, Glaciers, Global Change, Abrupt/rapid climate change (4901, 8408), Paleoceanography, Global climate models (1626, 3337), Paleoceanography, Thermohaline |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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