The climate of a retrograde rotating Earth

Mikolajewicz, Uwe; Ziemen, Florian; Cioni, Guido; Claussen, Martin; Fraedrich, Klaus; Heidkamp, Marvin; Hohenegger, Cathy; Jimenez de la Cuesta, Diego; Kapsch, Marie-Luise; Lemburg, Alexander; Mauritsen, Thorsten; Meraner, Katharina; Röber, Niklas; Schmidt, Hauke; Six, Katharina D.; Stemmler, Irene; Tamarin-Brodsky, Talia; Winkler, Alexander; Zhu, Xiuhua; Stevens, Bjorn

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-1191-2018

Articles | Volume 9, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-1191-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-1191-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 9, issue 4

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12 Oct 2018

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The climate of a retrograde rotating Earth

Uwe Mikolajewicz, Florian Ziemen, Guido Cioni, Martin Claussen, Klaus Fraedrich, Marvin Heidkamp, Cathy Hohenegger, Diego Jimenez de la Cuesta, Marie-Luise Kapsch, Alexander Lemburg, Thorsten Mauritsen, Katharina Meraner, Niklas Röber, Hauke Schmidt, Katharina D. Six, Irene Stemmler, Talia Tamarin-Brodsky, Alexander Winkler, Xiuhua Zhu, and Bjorn Stevens

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RC1: 'Review of "The climate of a retrograde rotating earth" by Mikolajewicz and coauthors', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Jun 2018
- AC1: 'reply to reviewer 1', Uwe Mikolajewicz, 07 Aug 2018
RC2: 'Review of "The climate of a retrograde rotating earth"', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Jul 2018
- AC2: 'reply to reviewer 2', Uwe Mikolajewicz, 07 Aug 2018

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (20 Aug 2018) by Daniel Kirk-Davidoff

AR by Uwe Mikolajewicz on behalf of the Authors (06 Sep 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (26 Sep 2018) by Daniel Kirk-Davidoff

AR by Uwe Mikolajewicz on behalf of the Authors (28 Sep 2018) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Model experiments show that changing the sense of Earth's rotation has relatively little impact on the globally and zonally averaged energy budgets but leads to large shifts in continental climates and patterns of precipitation. The retrograde world is greener as the desert area shrinks. Deep water formation shifts from the North Atlantic to the North Pacific with subsequent changes in ocean overturning. Over large areas of the Indian Ocean, cyanobacteria dominate over bulk phytoplankton.