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Response of the Atlantic thermohaline circula- tion (THC) to global warming is examined by using the cli- mate system model developed at IAP/LASG. The evidence indicates that the gradually warming climate associated with the increased atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to a warmer and fresher sea surface water at the high latitudes of the North Atlantic Ocean, which prevents the down-welling of the surface water. The succedent reduction of the pole-to- equator meridional potential density gradient finally results in the decrease of the THC in intensity. When the atmos- pheric carbon dioxide is doubled, the maximum value of the Atlantic THC decreases approximately by 8%. The associ- ated poleward oceanic heat transport also becomes weaker. This kind of THC weakening centralizes mainly in the northern part of the North Atlantic basin, indicating briefly a local scale adjustment rather than a loop oscillation with the whole Atlantic “conveyor belt” decelerating.
Response of the Atlantic thermohaline circula tion (THC) to global warming is examined by using the cli- mate system model developed at IAP / LASG. The evidence indicates that the warming climate associated with the increased atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to a warmer and fresher sea surface water at the high latitudes of the North Atlantic Ocean, which prevents the down-welling of the surface water. The succedent reduction of the pole-to- equator meridional potential density gradient finally results in the decrease of the THC in intensity. When the atmos- pheric carbon dioxide is doubled, the maximum value of the Atlantic THC decreases about by 8%. The associ- ated poleward oceanic heat transport also becomes weaker. This kind of THC weakening centralizes mainly in the northern part of the North Atlantic basin, 指 briefly a local scale adjustment rather than a loop oscillation with the whole Atlantic “conveyor belt” decelerating.