Atlantic overturning circulation questions abound

Perez, Renellys; Srokosz, Meric ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7347-7411; Danabasoglu, Gokhan. 2019 Atlantic overturning circulation questions abound. Eos, 100. 10.1029/2019EO114603

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Abstract/Summary

The global overturning circulation system connects all of Earth’s oceans and redistributes mass, heat, salt, carbon, and nutrients. In the Atlantic Ocean, this overturning loop involves the formation of cold, deep waters in the high-latitude North Atlantic and warm, upper ocean waters entering the South Atlantic from other oceans. Over the past 2 decades, the ocean and climate science community has undertaken an international enterprise to observe and predict the Atlantic component of this phenomenon, known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1029/2019EO114603
ISSN:	2324-9250
Date made live:	10 Dec 2019 09:23 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526123

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