PC34B:
Long-Term Changes of the Deep-Ocean Overturning Circulation: Past and Future II Posters
PC34B:
Long-Term Changes of the Deep-Ocean Overturning Circulation: Past and Future II Posters
Long-Term Changes of the Deep-Ocean Overturning Circulation: Past and Future II Posters
Session ID#: 85028
Session Description:
As a key component of the climate system, the deep-ocean overturning circulation, with its interconnected branches in the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans regulates the global transport of heat, freshwater and carbon. Paleo-reconstructions indicate that long-term variations in the meridional overturning circulation (MOC), from centennial, millennial, to even longer timescales, have played a pivotal role in past climate changes. Nevertheless, an understanding of the mechanisms that drive these long-term variations remains a major challenge in climate research. Our ability to predict future MOC variability and anthropogenic climate change, meanwhile, depends critically on our understanding of the mechanisms of MOC variability during past climatic changes. This interdisciplinary session aims to bring together theoretical, modeling and observational studies, as well as novel methodologies that combine above approaches, to study the spatial-temporal structures, mechanisms, and impacts of long-term changes of the MOC in the past and future.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- HE - High Latitude Environments
- OM - Ocean Modeling
- PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger
Index Terms:
1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4901 Abrupt/rapid climate change [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
4928 Global climate models [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
4962 Thermohaline [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
Primary Chair: Wei Liu, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Co-chairs: Zhengyu Liu, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, Malte Jansen, University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States and Sophia Hines, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Primary Liaison: Wei Liu, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Moderators: Wei Liu, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States and Malte Jansen, University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons: Zhengyu Liu, The Ohio State University, Department of Geography, Columbus, United States and Sophia Hines, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
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