Abstract: Brine rejection during the formation of Antarctic sea ice is known to enhance the salinity of dense shelf waters in the Weddell and Ross Seas. As these shelf waters flow off the shelves and descend to the bottom, they ...

Abstract: By convention, the ocean?s large-scale circulation is assumed to be a thermohaline overturning driven by the addition and extraction of buoyancy at the surface and vertical mixing in the interior. Previous work suggests ...

Abstract: The role of tectonic Southern Ocean gateway changes in driving Antarctic climate change at the Eocene?Oligocene boundary remains a topic of debate. One approach taken in previous idealized modeling studies of gateway effects ...

Abstract: A global primitive equations oceanic GCM and a simple four-box model of the meridional circulation are used to examine and analyze the instability of the thermohaline circulation in an ocean model with realistic geometry ...

Abstract: North Atlantic (NA) deep-water formation and the resulting Atlantic meridional overturning cell is generally regarded as the primary feature of the global overturning circulation and is believed to be a result of the ...

Abstract: he Weddell Polynya of the mid-1970s is simulated in an energy balance model (EBM) sea ice?ocean coupled general circulation model (GCM) with an abrupt 20% increase in the intensity of Southern Hemisphere (SH) westerlies. ...

Abstract: The comment by Rahmstorf suggests that a numerical problem in Tziperman et al. (1994, TTFB) leads to a noisy E ? P field that invalidates TTFB's conclusions. The authors eliminate the noise, caused by the Fourier filtering ...

Abstract: A coupled climate model with poleward-intensified westerly winds simulates significantly higher storage of heat and anthropogenic carbon dioxide by the Southern Ocean in the future when compared with the storage in a model ...