A systematic approach to determine thresholds of the ocean’s thermohaline circulation
By: Henk A. Dijkstra, Lianke Te Raa and Wilbert Weijer
References
-
Alley
, R. B., Mayewski, P. A., Sowers, T., Stuiver, M., Taylor, K. C.. 1997. Holocene climate variability: a prominent widespread event 8200 years ago. Geology, 483– 486. -
Alley
, R. B., Marotzke, J., Nordhaus, W. D., Overpeck, J. T., Peteet, D. M., et al.. Abrupt climate change. Nature, 2005– 2010. -
Broecker
, W. S.. Thermohaline circulation, the achilles heel of our climate system: Will man-made CO2 upset the current balance?, 1582– 1588. -
Dijkstra
, H. A.. Nonlinear Physical Oceanography: A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Large Scale Ocean Circulation and El Niño . Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht. -
Fanning
, A. Eand Weaver, A. J.. Temporal-geographical melt-water influences in the North Atlantic conveyor: implications for the Younger Dryas. Paleoceanography, 307– 320. -
Ganopolsky
, A., Rahmstorf, S., Petoukhov, V.and Claussen, M.. Rapid changes of glacial climate simulated in a coupled climate model. Nature, 153– 158. -
Levitus
, S., Burgett, R.and Boyer, T.. World Ocean Atlas 1994, Volume 3: Salinity. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 3, US Department of Commerce, Washington, DC, pp. 0- 99. -
Manabe
, S.and Stouffer, R. J.. Simulation of abrupt climate change induced by freshwater input into the North Atlantic Ocean. Nature, 165– 167. -
Manabe
, S.and Stouffer, R. J.. Are two modes of thermohaline circulation stable?. Tellus, 400– 411. -
Rahmstorf
, S.. Bifurcations of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to changes in the hydrological cycle. Nature, 145– 149. -
Rooth
, C.. Hydrology and ocean circulation. Prog. Oceanogr. 11, 131– 149. -
Schiller
, A., Mikolajewicz, U.and Voss, R.. The stability of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation in a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model. Climate Dyn. 13, 325– 347. -
Schmittner
, A.and Stocker, T. E. The stability of the thermohaline circulation in global warming experiments. J. Climate, 1117– 1133. -
Schmitz
, W. J.. On the interbasin-scale thermohaline circulation. Rev. Geophys. 33, 151– 173. -
Stocker
, T. E, Wright, D. G.and Mysak, L. A.. A zonally averaged, coupled ocean-atmosphere model for paleoclimate studies. J. Climate, 773– 797. -
Stommel
, H.. Thermohaline convection with two stable regimes of flow. Tellus, 244– 230. -
Trenberth
, K. E., Olson, J. G.and Large, W. G.. A global ocean wind stress climatology based on ECMWF analyses, Technical Report, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO. -
Vellinga
, M., Wood, R. A.and Gregory, J. M.. Processes governing the recovery of a perturbed thermohaline circulation in HadCM3. J. Climate, 764– 780. -
Weijer
, W.and Dijkstra, H. A.. Bifurcations of the three-dimensional thermohaline circulation: the double hemispheric case. J. Mar. Res. 59, 599– 631. -
Weijer
, W., Dijkstra, H. A., Öksiizoglu, H., Wubs, E W.and De Niet, A. C.. A fully-implicit model of the global ocean circulation. J. Comput. Phys. 192, 452– 470.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v56i4.14417 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 362 - 370
Submitted on: Jun 2, 2003
Accepted on: Oct 29, 2003
Published on: Jan 1, 2004
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2004 Henk A. Dijkstra, Lianke Te Raa, Wilbert Weijer, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.