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Shaun Eaves

Weakening or collapse of a major Atlantic current has disrupted NZ’s climate in the past – and could do so again

Shaun Eaves, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Andrew Mackintosh, Monash University; Helen Bostock, The University of Queensland, and Joel Pedro, Australian Antarctic Division

Earth’s climate system is connected across hemispheres. When the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakens and Europe cools, warming in New Zealand and southern mid-latitudes accelerates.
Small aircraft carry scientists high above the Southern Alps to survey glacier changes. Hamish McCormick/NIWA

A bird’s eye view of New Zealand’s changing glaciers

Andrew Lorrey, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA); Andrew Mackintosh, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington, and Brian Anderson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

Forty years of continuous end-of-summer snowline monitoring of New Zealand’s glaciers brings the issue of human-induced climate change into tight focus.

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