Speaker: Yao Fu, Assistant Professor of Physical Oceanography, University of South Florida
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is crucially important to global climate and marine ecosystems, due to its role in redistributing heat, freshwater, nutrients, oxygen and carbon on a global scale. Recent modeling and proxy-based studies have highlighted the potential vulnerability of the AMOC to a warming climate, with some predicting the AMOC’s possible collapse as early as 2025—this year.
In this presentation, Fu will use observational evidence from hydrographic section data and trans-basin mooring measurements in the subtropical and subpolar North Atlantic to demonstrate that the AMOC is more resilient to temperature and salinity changes than we previously thought, challenging common proxies often used to infer AMOC variability.
This seminar can also be viewed via our livestream.
Hosted by the Climate, People and the Environment Program (CPEP).