Hemispheric Asynchrony of Abrupt Climate Change

Establishing the spatial pattern of rapid climate changes contributes to a better understanding of the mechanisms driving them. Climate changes originating or amplified in the tropical ocean-atmosphere system could be responsible for such hemispherically symmetric warmings and coolings. However, the...

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Published inScience (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 304; no. 5679; pp. 1919 - 1920
Main Author Lynch-Stieglitz, Jean
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington American Association for the Advancement of Science 25.06.2004
The American Association for the Advancement of Science
Subjects
Climate
Climate change
Climate models
Cooling
Global climate models
Global warming
Heat
Land
Northern hemisphere
Ocean currents
Paleoclimatology
Perspectives
Reaction Time
Scientific Research
Seas
Southern hemisphere
Water
Northern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
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Summary:Establishing the spatial pattern of rapid climate changes contributes to a better understanding of the mechanisms driving them. Climate changes originating or amplified in the tropical ocean-atmosphere system could be responsible for such hemispherically symmetric warmings and coolings. However, the most well developed paradigm for the origin of these rapid climate changes is that they represent changes in the way the ocean current transports heat around the globe.
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ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.1100374