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Creator:: Schmittner, Andreas, Tonkonojenkov, Roman, Urban, Nathan M., Goes, Marlos, Haran, Murali, and Keller, Klaus
Abstract:: Current projections of the oceanic response to anthropogenic climate forcings are uncertain. Two key sources of these uncertainties are (1) structural errors in current Earth system models and (2) imperfect knowledge of model parameters. Ocean tracer observations have the potential to reduce these uncertainties. Previous studies typically consider each tracer...
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Creator:: Schmittner, Andreas, Latif, M., and Schneider, B.
Abstract:: Most climate models predict a weakening of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation for the 21st century when forced by increasing levels of greenhouse gas concentrations. The model spread, however, is rather large, even when the forcing scenario is identical, indicating a large uncertainty in the response to forcing. In order...
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Creator:: Schmittner, Andreas, Galbraith, Eric D., Hostetler, Steven W., Pedersen, Thomas F., and Zhang, Rong
Abstract:: Paleoclimate records from glacial Indian and Pacific oceans sediments document millennial-scale fluctuations of subsurface dissolved oxygen levels and denitrification coherent with North Atlantic temperature oscillations. Yet the mechanism of this teleconnection between the remote ocean basins remains elusive. Here we present model simulations of the oxygen and nitrogen cycles that...
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Creator:: Zhang, Xiao, Prange, Matthias, Steph, Silke, Butzin, Martin, Krebs, Uta, Lunt, Daniel J., Nisancioglu, Kerim H., Park, Wonsun, Schmittner, Andreas, Schneider, Birgit, and Schulz, Michael
Abstract:: The early Pliocene warm phase was characterized by high sea surface temperatures and a deep thermocline in the eastern equatorial Pacific. A new hypothesis suggests that the progressive closure of the Panamanian seaway contributed substantially to the termination of this zonally symmetric state in the equatorial Pacific. According to this...
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Creator:: Somes, Christopher J., Schmittner, Andreas, and Altabet, Mark A.
Abstract:: Nitrogen (N) fixation by specialized microorganisms (diazotrophs) influences global plankton productivity because it provides the ocean with most of its bio-available N. However, its global rate and large-scale spatial distribution is still regarded with considerable uncertainty. Here we use a global ocean nitrogen isotope model, in comparison with δ15NO3 observations,...
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Creator:: Goes, Marlos, Urban, Nathan M., Tonkonojenkov, Roman, Haran, Murali, Schmittner, Andreas, and Keller, Klaus
Abstract:: Current projections of the oceanic response to anthropogenic climate forcings are uncertain. Two key sources of these uncertainties are (1) structural errors in current Earth system models and (2) imperfect knowledge of model parameters. Ocean tracer observations have the potential to reduce these uncertainties. Previous studies typically consider each tracer...
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Creator:: Schmittner, Andreas and Galbraith, Eric D.
Abstract:: Earth's climate and the concentrations of the atmospheric greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) varied strongly on millennial timescales during past glacial periods. Large and rapid warming events in Greenland and the North Atlantic were followed by more gradual cooling, and are highly correlated with fluctuations of...
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