To test how well a climate model predicts
possible changes in ocean circulation due to climate change, GISS scientists have simulated the effects of a massive flood of fresh water some 8000 years ago.
A number of recent studies linking
changes in the North Atlantic
ocean circulation to sea ice extent led Yeager to think that it would also be
possible to make decadal predictions for Arctic winter sea ice cover using the NCAR - based Community Earth System Model...
In order to reliably interpret surface temperature variations we need a good idea of all the causal factors, including El Niño, solar irradiance, volcanic eruptions, observational biases, changes in ocean circulation and possible long term oscillation
In order to reliably interpret surface temperature variations we need a good idea of all the causal factors, including El Niño, solar irradiance, volcanic eruptions, observational biases,
changes in ocean circulation and possible long term oscillation
in ocean circulation and
possible long term oscillations.
However, it is
possible that long - term natural variability, rooted
in changes in the
ocean circulation, underlies much of this variability over multiple decades (8 — 12).