Characterising meridional overturning bistability using a minimal set of state variables

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 2127-2142

  Sijp, Willem P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

AMOC; Atlantic; Atlantic meridional overturning circulation; Bistability; Box model; Climate change; Convection shutdown; Critical points; Deep sinking; Gulf stream shutdown; Halocline catastrophe; Limit point; NADW formation; NADW shutdown; Non linear system; Non linear theory; North Atlantic deep water; Poleward heat transport; Saddle nodes; Two stable states

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEEP WATER; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT TRANSFER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SALINITY; SEA STATE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF STREAM;

EID: 84868141420     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1249-0     Document Type: Article

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