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In this Climate Chat episode, we interview returning guest René van Westen on his latest Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) research. Dr. Westen is a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. René is the author of a number of recent scientific papers on AMOC including the following:
Substantial Risk of 21st Century AMOC Tipping even under Moderate Climate Change:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19909
Collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a Strongly Eddying Ocean-Only Model
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2024GL114532
Deep Learning based reconstructions of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation confirm twenty-first century decline:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/add7f0/meta
Changing European Hydroclimate under a Collapsed AMOC in the Community Earth System Model (preprint):
https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-1440/
View our previous Climate Chat interview with Dr. Westen (highly recommended!):
AMOC Collapse: Timing & Impacts, with Climate Scientist René van Westen
https://youtube.com/live/xwcXF3TyWS8
René's home page: https://www.uu.nl/staff/RMvanWesten
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