The Dutch team simulated 2,200 years of AMOC flow.

荷兰团队模拟了2200年来AMOC的流动。

And that's thanks in part to the heating Europe gets from the AMOC.

这在一定程度上要归功于欧洲从 AMOC 获得的热量。

This section of the great ocean conveyor is called the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation — or AMOC.

大洋输送带的这一部分被称为大西洋经向翻转环流——或者叫 AMOC。

Altogether, the currents studied by the scientists are known as the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or AMOC.

科学家们研究的洋流被称为大西洋经向翻转环流（AMOC）。

Scientists created " a complex climate model" in an effort to simulate a possible collapse of the AMOC.

科学家们创建了“一个复杂的气候模型”，试图模拟AMOC可能崩溃的情况。

Computer simulations show that with that much melting the AMOC would power down — basically turning off the deep Atlantic current.

计算机模拟显示，随着融化程度的增加，AMOC 将会中断——基本上关闭了大西洋深海洋流。

Shutting down, or even slowing the AMOC would be a huge climate change disaster.

关闭甚至减缓 AMOC 将是一场巨大的气候变化灾难。

Van Westen said an AMOC collapse would mostly affect climate in Europe.

范·韦斯顿表示，AMOC的崩溃将主要影响欧洲的气候。

Measurements around that area have a big effect on how much the AMOC slows, the researchers said.

研究人员说，该区域周围的测量结果对AMOC的减速程度有很大影响。

RAPID AMOC was joined in 2014 by an arctic counterpart, OSNAP, the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Programme.

RAPID AMOC 于 2014 年加入了北极对应物 OSNAP，即亚极地北大西洋计划的颠覆。

It may mean the AMOC pump is already weakening, maybe to the slowest it's been in over a thousand years.

这可能意味着 AMOC 泵已经在减弱，可能是一千多年来最慢的。

A team of German scientists reports this week in Nature Climate Change that the AMOC appears to be drastically weakened.

本周， 一组德国科学家在《 自然气候变化》 杂志上报告说，AMOC 似乎被大大削弱了。

In addition, the team said the simulation predicted a possible 100 centimeter rise in European sea levels if the AMOC collapsed.

此外，该团队表示，模拟预测，如果AMOC崩溃，欧洲海平面可能上升100厘米。

For thousands of years, Earth's oceans have depended on the AMOC circulation system – which acts like a conveyor belt - to control climate.

几千年来，地球上的海洋一直依赖AMOC环流系统来控制气候，它的作用就像一条传送带。

But what scientists are certain of is that if climate change continues at its current pace, currents like the AMOC will break.

但是科学家们可以肯定的是，如果气候变化继续以目前的速度发展，像 AMOC 这样的洋流将会中断。

The odds of the AMOC shutting down within the next hundred years is what climate scientists call a " low probability, high impact" event.

AMOC 在未来一百年内关闭的可能性是气候科学家所说的“低概率、高影响”事件。

He added that when the AMOC reaches a certain level, the change does not happen over time, but would be more " cliff-like, " he added.

他补充说，当AMOC达到一定水平时，这种变化不会随着时间的推移而发生，而是会更加“断崖式”。

But judging by more than a thousand years’ worth of temperature data that these scientists mapped out, the AMOC began weakening rapidly in the 1970s.

但根据这些科学家绘制的一千多年的温度数据来看，AMOC 在 1970 年代开始迅速减弱。

Climate scientists think an interruption of the AMOC in the past may have triggered a sudden extremely cold spike in the climate of the Northern Hemisphere.

气候科学家认为，过去 AMOC 的中断可能引发了北半球气候的骤寒。

The heat released by the AMOC has huge climate effects, bringing moderate rains to Europe and bringing about a million power plants-worth of heat to some parts of the planet!

AMOC 释放的热量对气候有巨大的影响，给欧洲带来了温和的降雨，给地球的一些地方带来了价值一百万个发电厂的热量！