«The authors write that «the notorious tropical bias problem
in climate simulations of global coupled general circulation models manifests itself particularly strongly
in the tropical Atlantic,»... they state that «the climate bias problem is still so severe that one of the most basic
features of the equatorial Atlantic
Ocean — the eastward shoaling thermocline — can not be reproduced by most of the IPCC assessment report models,... as they describe it, «show that the bias
in the eastern equatorial Atlantic has a major effect on sea - surface
temperature (SST) response to a rapid
change in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).»
«Professor Mojib Latif, (lead author of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC)-RRB- from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University
in Germany, has been looking at the influence of cyclical
changes to
ocean currents and
temperatures in the Atlantic, a
feature known as the North Atlantic Oscillation.