Hysteresis behavior of the atlantic ocean circulation identified in observational data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 397-403

  Dima, Mihai ^a,b   Lohman, Gerrit ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Meridional overturning circulation; Nonlinear dynamics; Ocean circulation; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BI-STABILITY; BIFURCATION DIAGRAM; DEEP-WATER FORMATION; FRAM STRAIT; HYSTERESIS BEHAVIOR; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OCEAN CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SUBPOLAR GYRES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DYNAMICS; HYSTERESIS; SEA ICE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; BIFURCATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DEEP WATER FORMATION; GYRE; HYSTERESIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NONLINEARITY; SEA ICE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79851503906     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3467.1     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Allen, M., and L. A. Smith, 1997: Optimal filtering in singular spectrum analysis. Phys. Lett., 234, 419-428.
2. Ashkenazy, Y., and E. Tziperman, 2007: A wind-induced thermohaline circulation hysteresis and millennial variability regimes. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37, 2446-2457.
3. Barber, D. C., and Coauthors, 1999: Forcing of the cold event of 8,200 years ago by catastrophic drainage of Laurentide lakes. Nature, 400, 344-348.
4. Broecker, W. S., 1966: Absolute dating and the astronomical theory of glaciation. Science, 151, 299-304.
5. 2 upset the current balance? Science, 278, 1582-1588.
6. Bryan, F., 1986: High-latitude salinity effects and interhemispheric thermohaline circulations. Nature, 323, 301-304.
7. Dansgaard, W., and Coauthors, 1993: Evidence for general instability of past climate from a 250-kyr ice-core record. Nature, 364, 218-220.
8. Dickson, R., J. Lazier, J. Meincke, P. Rhines, and J. Swift, 1996: Long-term coordinated changes in the convective activity of the North Atlantic. Prog. Oceanogr., 38, 241-295.
9. Dima, M., and G. Lohmann, 2007: A mechanism for the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation. J. Climate, 20, 2706-2719.
10. Dima, M., and G. Lohmann, 2010: Evidence for two distinct modes of large-scale ocean circulation changes over the last century. J. Climate, 23, 5-16.
11. Döscher, R., C. W. Böning, and P. Herrmann, 1994: Response of circulation and heat transport in the North Atlantic to changes in thermohaline forcing in northern latitudes: A model study. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24, 2306-2320.
12. Enfield, D. B., and A. M. Mestas-Nuñez, 1999: Multiscale variabilities in global sea surface temperatures and their relationships with tropospheric climate patterns. J. Climate, 12, 2719-2733.
13. Folland, C. K., T. N. Palmer, and D. E. Parker, 1986: Sahel rainfall and worldwide sea temperatures, 1901-85. Nature, 320, 602-607.
14. Ganachaud, A., and C. Wunsch, 2000: Improved estimates of global ocean circulation, heat transport and mixing from hydrographic data. Nature, 408, 453-457.
15. Getzlaff, J., C. W. Boning, C. Eden, and A. Biastoch, 2005: Signal propagation related to the North Atlantic overturning. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L09602, doi:10.1029/2004GL021002.
16. Häkkinen, S., 1999: A simulation of thermohaline effects of a great salinity anomaly. J. Climate, 12, 1781-1795.
17. Kerr, R. A., 2000: A North Atlantic pacemaker for the centuries. Science, 288, 1984-1986.
18. Knight, J. R., R. J. Allan, C. K. Folland, M. Vellinga, and M. E. Mann, 2005: A signature of persistent natural thermohaline circulation cycles in observed climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L20708, doi:10.1029/2005GL024233.
19. Knorr, G., and G. Lohmann, 2007: Rapid transitions in the Atlantic thermohaline circulation triggered by global warming and meltwater during the last deglaciation. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8, Q12006, doi:10.1029/2007GC001604.
20. Latif, M., and Coauthors, 2004: Reconstructing, monitoring, and predicting multidecadal-scale changes in the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation with sea surface temperature. J. Climate, 17, 1605-1614.
21. Lenderink, G., and R. Haarsma, 1994: Variability and multiple equilibria of the thermohaline circulation associated with deep-water formation. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24, 1480-1493.
22. Liu, Z., and Coauthors, 2009: Transient simulation of last deglaciation with a new mechanism for Bølling-Allerød warming. Science, 325, 310-314.
23. Lorenz, E. N., 1956: Empirical orthogonal functions and statistical weather prediction. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Statistical Forecasting Project Scientific Rep. 1, Defense Doc. Center 110268, 49 pp.
24. Manabe, S., and R. J. Stouffer, 1988: Two stable equilibria of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model. J. Climate, 1, 841-866.
25. Marzeion, B., A. Levermann, and J. Mignot, 2010: Sensitivity of North Atlantic subpolar gyre and overturning to stratificationdependent mixing: Response to global warming. Climate Dyn., 33, 661-668.
26. McManus, J. F., R. Francois, J. M. Gherardi, L. D. Keigwin, and S. Brown-Leger, 2004: Collapse and rapid resumption of Atlantic meridional circulation linked to deglacial climate changes. Nature, 428, 834-837.
27. Rahmstorf, S., 1995a: Bifurcations of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to changes in the hydrological cycle. Nature, 378, 145-149.
28. Rahmstorf, S., 1995b: Multiple convection patterns and thermohaline flow in an idealized OGCM. J. Climate, 8, 3028-3039.
29. Rahmstorf, S., and Coauthors, 2005: Thermohaline circulation hysteresis: A model intercomparison. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L23605, doi:10.1029/2005GL023655.
30. Schlesinger, M. E., and N. Ramankutty, 1995: Is the recently reported 65- to 70-year surface-temperature oscillation the result of climatic noise? J. Geophys. Res., 100, 13 767-13 774.
31. Schmith, T., and C. Hansen, 2003: Fram Strait ice export during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries reconstructed from a multiyear sea ice index from southwestern Greenland. J. Climate, 16, 2782-2791.
32. Schulz, M., M. Prange, and A. Klocker, 2007: Low-frequency oscillations of the Atlantic Ocean meridional overturning circulation in a coupled climate model. Climate Past, 3, 97-107.
33. Smith, T. M., R. W. Reynolds, T. C. Peterson, and J. Lawrimore, 2008: Improvements to NOAA's historical merged land- ocean surface temperature analysis (1880-2006). J. Climate, 21, 2283-2296.
34. Stocker, T. F., and D. G. Wright, 1991: Rapid transitions of the ocean's deep circulation induced by changes in the surface water fluxes. Nature, 351, 729-732.
35. Stommel, H., 1961: Thermohaline convection with two stable regimes of flow. Tellus, 13, 224.
36. Stouffer, R. J., and Coauthors, 2006: Investigating the causes of the response of the thermohaline circulation to past and future climate changes. J. Climate, 19, 1365-1387.
37. Sutton, R. T., and D. L. R. Hodson, 2005: Atlantic Ocean forcing of North American and European summer climate. Science, 309, 115-118.
38. Vautard, R., P. Yiou, and M. Ghil, 1992: Singular-spectrum analysis: A toolkit for short, noisy chaotic signals. Physica D, 58, 95-126.
39. Yang, J., 1999: A linkage between decadal climate variations in the Labrador Sea and the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 1023-1026.
40. Zhang, R., and G. K. Vallis, 2006: Impact of great salinity anomalies on the low-frequency variability of the North Atlantic climate. J. Climate, 19, 470-482.