A new look at rapid climate change and the bipolar shift

Publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Nina Davtian & Edouard Bard
Chair of Climate and Ocean Evolution of the Collège de France
CEREGE (UMR Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, Collège de France) Aix-en-Provence

"The Atlantic Meridian Overturning Circulation (AMOC: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) is likely to be affected by current climate change. A weakening of the AMOC could contribute to the observed regional cooling at the surface of the North Atlantic, a feature of the data and numerical simulations that has been interpreted as one of the complex oceanic responses to increasing CO₂ in the atmosphere. This notable feature is highlighted in the very first figure of the IPCC AR5 Summary for Policymakers and in Figure 5 of the latest IPCC Summary AR6 (IPCC in English)...

Extract from the PNAS publication of 14/03/23
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