WEDNESDAY 2 May 2012
11am in the Seminar Room (Note change of venue)
Johanna Baehr (Institute of Oceanography, University of Hamburg)
Title TBA
ABSTRACT
In this talk I look at the RAPID 26N AMOC observations from a modeling perspective. I show how (good) models can reproduce, supplement, assimilate, and predict the observations.
Both ocean and climate models show comparable variability to the observations on subseasonal, seasonal and interannual timescales. Overall, the total AMOC as well as its individual components can be reproduced in their magnitude of variability. With these numerical models, observing system simulations can help identifying suitable locations for additional AMOC observations in the North Atlantic. Recently, interannual AMOC variability has also successfully been predicted with a climate model.