Changes in the Atlantic overturning circulation have a strong influence on European temperatures, North American sea level and other climate phenomena worldwide. A meaningful assessment of associated societal impacts needs to be based on the full range of its possible future evolution. This requires capturing both the uncertainty in future warming pathways and the inherently long-term response ...

As special equipment for storing energy, the safety performance of liquified natural gas (LNG) storage tanks under earthquake action is extremely important. To study dynamic characteristics large-scale LNG tank structure and response action, shaking table test numerical simulation analysis model are carried out. The results demonstrate that vibration frequency significantly reduced after isolat...

Aerodynamic optimization of building geometry has received significant attention in the design community. In this paper, a process with high-frequency force balance (HFFB) technique to determine most effective mitigation measure and synchronized pressure integration (SPI) verify effect is developed for aerodynamic high-rise buildings. Then, applied 318 m-tall building. Tests show that wind on w...

The dynamic responses of a concrete rectangular liquid storage tank on the surface rigid soil subjected to three-directional earthquake ground motion are investigated with material nonlinearity taken into consideration. Material in is considered using damage plasticity model. hydrodynamic pressure due finite-element solution governing equation for an inviscid and incompressible ideal fluid flui...

With the development of construction technology and material, more super high-rise buildings will be constructed in future. In a specific metropolitan area, building with various cross-section high side ratio have to been designed due size limitation site. This kind is also very prone wind excitations. this research, tunnel tests for practical case surrounding were carried out atmospheric bound...

[1] From the interpretation of different proxy data it is widely believed that the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation during the maximum of the last ice age !21,000 years ago was considerably weaker than today. Recent equilibrium simulations with a coupled ocean-atmosphere-sea ice model successfully simulated a reduction in North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation consistent with reconst...

(2010). Atlantic overturning circulation and Agulhas leakage influences on southeast Atlantic upper ocean hydrography during marine isotope stage 11. Paleoceanography, 25 PA3208. For guidance on citations see FAQs. Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data pol...

The sensitivity of the Atlantic Ocean meridional overturning circulation to the vertical diffusion coefficient in the global coupled atmosphere–ocean–sea ice model CLIMBER-3 is investigated. An important feature of the three-dimensional ocean model is its low-diffusive tracer advection scheme. The strength Mmax of the Atlantic overturning is decomposed into three components: 1) the flow MS expo...