HR: 1340h
AN: PP13B-1496    [Abstracts]
TI: Response to a Simulated Reduction in Thermohaline Circulation in a Large Ensemble of General Circulation Models
AU: * Faull, N E
EM: nfaull@atm.ox.ac.uk
AF: Oxford University, AOPP, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU United Kingdom
AU: Aina, T
PP13B-1496 AF: Oxford University, AOPP, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU United Kingdom
AU: Frame, D J
PP13B-1496 AF: Oxford University, AOPP, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU United Kingdom
AU: Collins, M
PP13B-1496 AF: Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB United Kingdom
AU: Knight, S
PP13B-1496 AF: Oxford University, AOPP, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU United Kingdom
AU: Kettleborough, J A
PP13B-1496 AF: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0QX United Kingdom
AU: Stainforth, D A
PP13B-1496 AF: Oxford University, AOPP, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU United Kingdom
AU: Christensen, C
PP13B-1496 AF: Oxford University, AOPP, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU United Kingdom
AU: Allen, M R
PP13B-1496 AF: Oxford University, AOPP, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU United Kingdom
AB: The Thermohaline Circulation (THC) is known to have a strong influence on climate. However, the consequences of a THC collapse on global and regional climate is not well known. By imposing an atmosphere-ocean heat flux anomaly, we investigate the climate response due to a 50% slowdown of the THC in an ensemble of general circulation models taking into account model uncertainty. Preliminary results from the ensemble are presented.
DE: 1605 Abrupt/rapid climate change (4901, 8408)
DE: 1626 Global climate models (3337, 4928)
DE: 3339 Ocean/atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504)
DE: 4962 Thermohaline
SC: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology [PP]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005