PL24A:
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Modeling and Observations III Posters


Session ID#: 27800

Session Description:
Through its associated heat, salt, and carbon transports, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) significantly influences the climate of the North Atlantic and surrounding areas and can even impact global climate through interactions with atmosphere on seasonal to multi-decadal timescales. Because the memory of the ocean vastly exceeds that of the atmosphere, AMOC is thought to represent the dynamical memory of the climate system, playing a major role in climate variations, hence in climate predictions, on these and even longer, i.e., centennial to millennial, timescales. Support for such a prominent role for AMOC on long time scales comes from coupled general circulation model simulations and proxy records. On shorter, i.e., intra-seasonal to decadal, timescales, measurements of transports, heat content, and other variables throughout the Atlantic Ocean have been instrumental in investigating the spatial structure, mechanisms, and impacts of AMOC variability, showing the importance of processes from the mesoscale to the basin scale. A synergy of knowledge gained from all these efforts will lead to a better understanding of AMOC.

We invite contributions from modeling and observational (both instrumental and proxy) studies, investigating AMOC variability and mechanisms as well as its role in climate predictions on various, e.g., decadal, timescales.

Primary Chair:  Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-chairs:  Femke de Jong, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Ocean Science Systems, Texel, Netherlands, Rong Zhang, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and Meric A Srokosz, National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Moderators:  Rong Zhang, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Femke de Jong, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Ocean Science Systems, Texel, Netherlands, Meric A Srokosz, National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom and Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Rong Zhang, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and Femke de Jong, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Ocean Science Systems, Texel, Netherlands
Index Terms:

4255 Numerical modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4263 Ocean predictability and prediction [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PC - Past, Present and Future Climate

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Clare Johnson1, Stuart A Cunningham1, Loic Houpert1, Christopher O'Donnell1, Stefan Gary1, Mark Inall1 and Naomi P Holliday2, (1)Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, United Kingdom, (2)National Oceanography Centre Southampton, United Kingdom
Veit Lüschow and Jin-Song von Storch, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Isabela Le Bras, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Steven R Jayne, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Igor Yashayaev, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada and John Toole, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Tillys Petit, Ifremer, LOPS, Plouzane, France, Herle Mercier, CNRS, LOPS, Ifremer, Plouzané, France and Virginie Thierry, Ifremer, LOPS, France
H. Thomas Rossby, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, Charles N Flagg, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Leon Chafik, University of Bergen, and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway and Henrik Soiland, Inst Marine Research, Bergen, Norway
Claudia Schmid, NOAA/AOML, PHOD, Miami, FL, United States and Sudip Majumder, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami and Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, NOAA, Miami, FL, United States
James Holte and Fiammetta Straneo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Afonso Goncalves Neto, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, Jaime B Palter, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States, Amy S Bower, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Heather H Furey, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Frederic Cyr, Jennifer Holden, Eugene Colbourne and Pierre Pepin, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, St. John's, NF, Canada
Chia-Wei Hsu, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Isabella Velicogna, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Tiago Carrilho Bilo, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States and William E Johns, Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Amy S Bower1, Heather H Furey1, Sijia Zou2 and M Susan Lozier2, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Herle Mercier1, Pascale Lherminier2, Nathalie Daniault3, Patricia Zunino1 and Fiz Perez4, (1)CNRS, LOPS, Plouzane, France, (2)IFREMER, LOPS, Plouzané, France, (3)UBO, LOPS, Plouzane, France, (4)CSIC, IIM, Vigo, Spain
Loic Houpert1, Mark Inall1, Estelle Dumont1, Stefan Gary1, Clare Johnson1, Marie Porter1, William E Johns2 and Stuart A Cunningham1, (1)Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, United Kingdom, (2)Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Sandy E Lucas, NOAA-Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States
David Nieves, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States and Michael A Spall, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Yavor Krasimirov Kostov, David Philip Marshall and Helen Johnson, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
C. Spencer Jones, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Paola Cessi, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Paul Spence, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre,, Sydney, Australia, Laurie Menviel, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, Australia, Ryan Holmes, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Matthew H England, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Sydney, Australia, Stephen Matthew Griffies, NOAA/GFDL, NJ, United States, Andrew M. Hogg, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Richard Matear, CSIRO, Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, Australia and Matthew Chamberlain, CSIRO Australian Resources Research Center, Hobart, WA, Australia