dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Dijkstra, H.A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Valenti Muelas, J.M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-28T18:00:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-28T18:00:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/37119 | |
dc.description.abstract | The climate system response to emission reduction shows time dependencies when evaluated in terms of global mean sur- face temperature (GMST). The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) variability may be forcing a non-linear behaviour on GMST response to emission reduction. In this study, emission reduction is evaluated with eight starting actions times on three equilibrium climate sensitivities (ECS), using the PLASIM-GENIE intermediate complexity Atmosphere and Ocean global climate model. Under these CO2 reducing scenarios, AMOC collapses in six out of the twenty-four simulations performed. The effect of the AMOC collapse in the emission reduction scenarios is a transient faster response (cooling) in the short term compensates with a slower response to emission reduction in the forthcoming decades. In non-collapsing scenarios, the emission reduction response might have initial conditions dependencies with the AMOC variability. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 5195243 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | AMOC variability, a key factor in emission reduction scenarios | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | AMOC, CO2 emission reducing scenarios, GMST response | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Climate Physics | |