PC31A:
Meridional Overturning Circulation Dynamics in Past Warm and Cold Climates I
PC31A:
Meridional Overturning Circulation Dynamics in Past Warm and Cold Climates I
Meridional Overturning Circulation Dynamics in Past Warm and Cold Climates I
Session ID#: 36869
Session Description:
The meridional overturning circulation (MOC) is a key component of the global climate system, as it modulates the transport and storage of both heat and carbon. Changes in deep-ocean circulation are thought to have played a key role in past climatic transitions, such as between glacial and interglacial periods. However, reaching a quantitative understanding of the dynamics that contributed to these changes, remains a major challenge in climate research. The MOC’s response to current climate trends is also an unknown when assessing future global ocean-climate-carbon cycle interactions. Investigating how the MOC varied in the past can provide crucial information on the mechanisms and drivers of its variability, as well as on the possible impacts of future circulation changes. This multidisciplinary session will facilitate discussions between the modeling and data communities, with the aim to explore both the transient and equilibrium response of the MOC to different forcing scenarios. We welcome contributions from both proxy-based studies to reconstruct past changes, and those exploring these dynamics from a mechanistic perspective, spanning from theoretical approaches to fully-coupled numerical modeling efforts. We especially encourage combined model-data analyses, as well as studies investigating past periods that could be viewed as analogues for future climates.
Primary Chair: Alice Marzocchi, University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
Co-chairs: Benoit Thibodeau, The University of Hong Kong, Earth Sciences and SWIMS, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Juan Muglia, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Andrea Burke, University of St Andrews, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, St Andrews, KY16, United Kingdom
Moderators: Alice Marzocchi, University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States, Benoit Thibodeau, The University of Hong Kong, Earth Sciences and SWIMS, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Andrea Burke, University of St. Andrews, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, St. Andrews, United Kingdom and Juan Muglia, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CESIMAR, Puerto Madryn, Argentina
Student Paper Review Liaisons: Alice Marzocchi, University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States and Benoit Thibodeau, The University of Hong Kong, Earth Sciences and SWIMS, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Index Terms:
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4255 Numerical modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4962 Thermohaline [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
Cross-Topics:
- BN - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
- HE - High Latitude Environments
- OM - Ocean Modeling
- PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
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