A better understanding of the mechanisms of climatic anomalies is decisive to examine the climate system’s sensitivity in the context of the rapidly warming climate and concerns to society because changing salinity patterns in the North Atlantic today could lead to abrupt climate change.

This project aims to combine paleoceanographic reconstructions from key locations of the North Atlantic and a climatic model. The collaboration between paleoceanographers and climate modellers will permit to better understand and quantify the factors involved in specific climatic events that could be considered as analogues for possible future climatic anomalies.