OS41G:
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Climate Variability, and Change I

Session ID#: 4657

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3009 (Moscone West)
Chair:  Alexey V Fedorov, Yale University, New Haven, United States
Primary Convener:  Alexey V Fedorov, Yale University, New Haven, United States
Co-conveners:  LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington, Oceanography, Seattle, United States, Jerry F McManus, Columbia U. / LDEO, Palisades, United States and Eleanor Frajka-Williams, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Eleanor Frajka-Williams, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4263 Ocean predictability and prediction [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4962 Thermohaline [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

OS41G-01
Observed MOC Variability at 26.5°N and 34.5°S: Structure and Time Scale Similarities and Differences in the North and South Atlantic (Invited) (6502)
Christopher S Meinen1, William E Johns2, Sabrina Speich3, David Smeed4, Renellys C Perez5, Gerard McCarthy4, Shenfu Dong5, Alberto R Piola6, Silvia Lucia Garzoli5, Eleanor Frajka-Williams7, Molly O'Neil Baringer8 and Edmo J Campos9, (1)Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Physical Oceanography Division, Miami, FL, United States, (2)Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, United States, (3)Ecole Normale Supérieure, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Professor, Paris, France, (4)National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (5)UM/CIMAS & NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, United States, (6)Servicio de Hidrografia Naval & Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (7)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (8)Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States, (9)USP University of Sao Paulo, Physical, Chemical and Geological Oceanography, São Paulo, Brazil
OS41G-02
New Direct Estimates of Iceland-Scotland Overflow Water Transport Through the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone (30454)
Amy S Bower, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Heather H Furey, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Xiaobiao Xu, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States
OS41G-03
Attributing Variability in Atlantic Meridional Overturning to Wind and Buoyancy Forcing (Invited) (4133)
David Philip Marshall, University of Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, Helen R Pillar, Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Patrick Heimbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and David Philip Marshall, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
OS41G-04
Impact of Gyre-Specific Overturning Changes on North Atlantic Heat Content (3997)
Richard G Williams, University of Liverpool, Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom, Vassil Roussenov, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, M Susan Lozier, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States and Doug M Smith, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
OS41G-05
Simulated Response of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and Northern Hemisphere Climate to NAO Variations on Interannual to Centennial Time Scales (9596)
Thomas L Delworth, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, United States and Fanrong Jenny Zeng, NOAA Princeton, Princeton, United States
OS41G-06
Indirect Wind-Forcing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (4134)
Eleanor Frajka-Williams, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, Richard G Williams, University of Liverpool, Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom and Aurelie Duchez, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
OS41G-07
How AMOC variations affect climate: the Northern Hemisphere versus the interhemispheric seesaw. (13424)
Les Muir, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States and Alexey V Fedorov, Yale University, New Haven, United States
OS41G-08
Decadal Variations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (18197)
Martin Visbeck1, Jürgen Fischer2, Johannes Karstensen2 and Rainer Zantopp3, (1)University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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