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Study reframes Atlantic current as a 'heat valve' controlling global heat storage
New model resolves mismatch between Greenland and Antarctic ice-core records
1 Sep 12 4:00 AM · 12d ago · 2 articles · 2 sources · development 1 of 2
The heat-valve framework explains why past abrupt climate shifts appeared rapidly in Greenland ice cores but only slowly in Antarctic records over the same periods, a puzzle the older 'thermal bipolar seesaw' model struggled to account for.
“a critical threshold beyond which AMOC weakening becomes self-reinforcing and irreversible.”
Christo Buizert, Lead study author · rss ↗Christo Buizert Lead study author
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