Abstract
Although heat transport by the oceans is comparable in magnitude to heat transport by the atmosphere and changes in oceanic heat transport have often been invoked to explain past climatic changes, there has been little explicit investigation of the sensitivity of climate to ocean heat transport. In fact, some theoretical studies employing general circulation models (GCMs) of Earth's atmosphere and oceans suggest that the climatic effect of a change in ocean heat transport may be moderated by a tendency of the atmosphere to compensate by changing its heat transport in the opposite sense. If this compensation effect exists, rethinking of the role of ocean heat transport in both paleoclimates and possible future climatic change is warranted.
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