Reply to Parker: Robust response of AMOC interdecadal variability to future intense warming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Based on 19 experiments using five models of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5, our study (1) finds a shortened and weakened interdecadal variability (IV) of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) over a future intense warming period in the 22nd and 23rd centuries, and proposes that warming-induced changes of oceanic dynamics may be responsible for these changes of AMOC-IV. As the key modulator of long-term climate variation, AMOC-IV and its response to global warming are important for future climate projection.