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The background to this discussion is familiar to our regular readers (else just enter ‘AMOC’ in the RealClimate search field): proper measurements of the AMOC flow are only available since 2004 in the RAPID project , thus for earlier times we need to use indirect clues. 2018 (Fig.
2004 ) which is a better representation of the mid-troposphere than the classic TMT diagnostic through an adjustment using the lower stratosphere record (i.e. ). Seidel, "Contribution of stratospheric cooling to satellite-inferred tropospheric temperature trends", Nature , vol. 55-58, 2004. 2022) courtesy of Ben Santer.
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We have direct AMOC measurements only since 2004, a time span too short for this type of study. If the AMOC weakens, this region will cool. And in fact it is cooling – it’s the only region on Earth which has cooled since preindustrial times. I’ve seen two main arguments there. From Rahmstorf and Ganopolski 1999.
Well, back in 1993 (before the more comprehensive critiques had been published), Hoyt and Schatten put together a long-term estimate of solar activity that relied on the SCL, based on the idea from FCL91 and scaled to a finding about cycling and non-cycling stars that turned out to be wrong too (Wright, 2004). 1273-1278, 2004.
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We don’t have direct measurements over such a long time (only since 2004 from the RAPID project ), but various indirect indications. For more on this see my Review Paper in Nature. The AMOC has weakened over the past hundred years. ” In addition there appear to be decadal oscillations particularly after the mid-20th Century.
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