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Thermohaline Circulation Variability

Thermohaline Circulation Variability is a dynamic oceanographic phenomenon within the broader class of climate system variability, distinguished by fluctuations in the global ocean's density-driven overturning circulation resulting from spatial and temporal changes in seawater temperature and salinity.

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Atlantic Ocean Forcing of North American and European Summer Climate

Rowan Sutton, Dan Hodson · Science · 2005 · 1.4K citations

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A signature of persistent natural thermohaline circulation cycles in observed climate

Jeff Knight, Robert J. Allan, Chris K. Folland et al. · Geophysical Research Letters · 2005 · 1.3K citations

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Effect of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama on Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation

Gerald H. Haug, Ralf Tiedemann · Nature · 1998 · 973 citations

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Global Climatic Impacts of a Collapse of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation

Michael Vellinga, Richard Wood · Climatic Change · 2002 · 917 citations

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The role of the thermohaline circulation in abrupt climate change

Peter U. Clark, Nicklas G. Pisias, Thomas F. Stocker et al. · Nature · 2002 · 889 citations

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Authors

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    Gerrit Lohmann

    Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Germany

    19 publications · 1.6K citations

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  2. AJ
    Andrew J. Weaver

    University of Victoria, Canada

    13 publications · 2.3K citations

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  3. ET
    Eli Tziperman

    Planetary Science Institute, United States

    11 publications · 637 citations

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  4. RJ
    Ronald J. Stouffer

    NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, United States

    8 publications · 506 citations

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  5. UM
    Uwe Mikolajewicz

    Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany

    8 publications · 1.3K citations

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Institutions

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    17 h-index

    66 publications

    5.3K citations

  2. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Falmouth, United States

    17 h-index

    24 publications

    3.7K citations

  3. National Oceanography Centre

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    16 h-index

    32 publications

    2.6K citations

  4. Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung

    Bremerhaven, Germany

    16 h-index

    37 publications

    2.6K citations

  5. NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

    Princeton, United States

    15 h-index

    21 publications

    5.6K citations

  6. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

    15 h-index

    38 publications

    3.9K citations

  7. Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

    Hamburg, Germany

    14 h-index

    33 publications

    5.4K citations

  8. University of Victoria

    Victoria, Canada

    13 h-index

    35 publications

    3.5K citations

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  1. Geophysical Research Letters

    52 publications · 5.6K citations

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  2. Journal of Climate

    44 publications · 4.5K citations

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  3. Journal of Physical Oceanography

    47 publications · 3.1K citations

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  4. Paleoceanography

    32 publications · 3.5K citations

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  5. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 32 publications · 1.6K citations

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