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Map of North and South Atlantic Oceans, using seafloor temperature as a basemap. Additional features such as the boundaries for boxes used in the For Python and For Windows are marked, as well as locations of the RAPID array, which has been monitoring AMOC since 2004.

Founded December 1st 2021, this project has since been used by hundreds of researchers, private and public organisations across 24 countries.

Unlike the cornucopia of resources on climate warming, there is a surprising lack of user-friendly software for modelling the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

Stefan Rahmstorf suggests AMOC may have both stable on and off states dependent on the fresh water added to the North Atlantic. This conclusion agrees with and was built upon Henry Stommel's 1961 work on a two box model of AMOC.

A modified version of Stommel's model is available at the Online Models tab. Models produced by this project For Python and For Windows combine advancements made prior alongside additional considerations for freshwater influence and atmospheric systems. User adjustability has been an important goal for this project, so you are encouraged to use different parameters within the models or add further functions to the code.

Example Harvard reference for this work:

Open-AMOC. (2021). The Open-AMOC Project. Available at: https://www.openamoc.site/home (Accessed: 26 April 2024).

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