Sensitivity and Change in the Global Ocean Overturning

  • Griffiths, Ross (PI)

    Project: Research

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    Description

    A limited understanding of the deep oceans contributes to the current large uncertainties in the response times and sensitivity of the climate system, and in estimates of the amount of future global warming already in the pipeline. The project will provide new insights by examining the fundamental dynamics of the overturning circulation of the oceans under changing surface forcing, using laboratory experiments and a convection-resolving GCM. We aim to understand the timescales of adjustment, the transport of heat into the oceans, the coupling of the global convective circulation to dense water formation in rapidly changing high-latitude seas, and the conditions for abrupt shut-down of deep overturning.
    StatusFinished
    Effective start/end date1/01/1031/12/14

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