"We can expect many extremes to be further amplified, including hotter heat waves and a supercharged water cycle. These changes can have major impacts on local communities and ripple through the global economy." Our recent state of the climate briefing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHpD...

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Here's 3 surprising new preprints on the Atlantic ocean circulation #AMOC. 🌊 The first by Winkelbauer et al. analyses 17 different ocean reanalysis products and finds the AMOC has weakened about 15% over the last 3 decades. egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

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🌊 Around #Antarctica, coastal polynyas are regions of persistent open water within the sea ice. They play a crucial role in polar climate by exchanging heat and moisture between the ocean and atmosphere, absorbing solar radiation, promoting biological productivity, and acting as ‘sea-ice factories’.

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A recent doubling of global warming rate: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... I am always skeptical of trends showing acceleration when only using a selection of data in a plot like this. Any thoughts out there on how reliable this is? 🧪🌊

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Cross-hemispheric circulation can persist in the Atlantic for centuries even as a major component of the #AMOC fails, a new study shows, offering new insight into the global ocean response to warming. 🧪🌊 eos.org/research-spo...

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