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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:: Sarnthein, Michael, Bartoli, Greta, Prange, Michael, Schmittner, Andreas, Schneider, Birgit, Weinelt, Mara, Andersen, N., and Garbe-Schönberg, D.
Abstract:: A major tipping point of Earth's history occurred during the mid-Pliocene: the onset of major Northern-Hemisphere Glaciation (NHG) and of pronounced, Quaternary-style cycles of glacial-to-interglacial climates, that contrast with more uniform climates over most of the preceding Cenozoic and continue until today (Zachos et al., 2001). The severe deterioration of...
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Creator:: Schneider, Birgit, Latif, M., and Schmittner, Andreas
Abstract:: Climate models predict a gradual weakening of the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC) during the twenty-first century due to increasing levels of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. Using an ensemble of 16 different coupled climate models performed for the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on...
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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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Creator:: Schmittner, Andreas, Urban, Nathan M., Keller, Klaus, and Matthews, Damon
Abstract:: What is the uncertainty of climate-carbon cycle projections in response to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and how can we reduce this uncertainty? We address this question by quantifying the ability of available ocean tracer observations to constrain the values of diapycnal diffusivity in the pelagic ocean (Kv), a key uncertain...
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Creator:: Oschlies, Andreas, Schulz, Kai G., Riebesell, Ulf, and Schmittner, Andreas
Abstract:: The primary impacts of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on marine biogeochemical cycles predicted so far include ocean acidification, global warming induced shifts in biogeographical provinces, and a possible negative feedback on atmospheric CO2 levels by CO2-fertilized biological production. Here we report a new potentially significant impact on the oxygen-minimum zones of...
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Creator:: Schmittner, Andreas, Oschlies, Andreas, Giraud, X., Eby, M., and Simmons, H. L.
Abstract:: A new model of the marine ecosystem coupled into a global Earth System Climate Model suitable for long-term (multimillennial timescale) simulations is presented. The model is based on nitrate as the sole limiting nutrient. Prognostic equations for nutrients, phytoplankton, zooplankton, and detritus are solved online in the three-dimensional ocean circulation...
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Creator:: Schmittner, Andreas, Oschlies, Andreas, Matthews, H. Damon, and Galbraith, Eric D.
Abstract:: A new model of global climate, ocean circulation, ecosystems, and biogeochemical cycling, including a fully coupled carbon cycle, is presented and evaluated. The model is consistent with multiple observational data sets from the past 50 years as well as with the observed warming of global surface air and sea temperatures...
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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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