Articles | Volume 10, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-881-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-881-2014
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07 Nov 2014
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Changes in extreme regional sea surface height due to an abrupt weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

S.-E. Brunnabend, H. A. Dijkstra, M. A. Kliphuis, B. van Werkhoven, H. E. Bal, F. Seinstra, J. Maassen, and M. van Meersbergen

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Regional sea surface height (SSH) changes due to an abrupt weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) are simulated with a high- and low-resolution model. A rapid decrease of the AMOC in the high-resolution version induces shorter return times of several specific regional and coastal extremes in North Atlantic SSH than in the low-resolution version. This effect is caused by a change in main eddy pathways associated with a change in separation latitude of the Gulf Stream.