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[โ€“] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

... Are you aware of any study or perhaps graphic or map based on a studies that... actually tries to model the effects of an AMOC shutdown?

Because I loosely keep up with Paul Beckwith's roughly weekly videos and uh... the SMOC ain't doin so great, and like, currently, and in the last month or two... well, the artctic polar vortex has ... more or been destabilizing... to a rather extreme amount...

[โ€“] Geobloke@aussie.zone 1 points 15 hours ago

Pretty sure that the sahara is classified as a mid latitude desert, similar to the Arabian, the atacama or the great Sandy desert in Australia which are influenced by the Hadley Cells