AMOC and Global Temperatures (IMAGE)

University of Washington

AMOC and Global Temperatures

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The top panel shows global average surface temperature changes since 1950, with two periods of slower change and a period of rapid warming from 1975 to 2000. The lower panels show the strength of the Atlantic overturning circulation. The blue (and, on the right, purple) curve is the salinity north of 45N, an indirect measure, or proxy, for the AMOC strength. The green curve is an established proxy of AMOC.

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Ka-Kit Tung/University of Washington

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