Data from: The impacts of an AMOC slowdown on Southern Hemisphere and Australian climates at 8.2 ka in ACCESS-ESM1.5 model

Greenland ice cores reveal an abrupt cooling of up to 3.3°C 8.2 kyr ago
(8.2 ka), lasting for roughly 160 years. The event was likely caused by a
weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) due to
freshwater drainage into the North Atlantic. It was associated with a
global-scale climate change but is recorded in very few high-resolution
paleoclimatic time series from the Southern Hemisphere (SH). Here, we
investigate the 8.2 ka event in the SH, particularly the Australian
climate response to a weakened AMOC. Five North Atlantic meltwater
experiments are conducted with the Australian Earth System Model,
ACCESS-ESM1.5, to evaluate the sensitivity of AMOC responses to freshwater
perturbations under early Holocene conditions as well as their climate
impact.