Climate change impacts on ocean circulation relevant to the UK and Ireland

McCarthy, G. D.; Graham, J. A.; Hermanson, L.; Hodge, K. R.; Moat, B. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8676-7779; Moffa-Sanchez, P.; Petit, T.; Robson, J.. 2025 Climate change impacts on ocean circulation relevant to the UK and Ireland. MCCIP Ocean Circulation Review. 35, pp. 10.14465/2025.reu05.cir

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Ocean circulation, including ocean currents and systems of ocean currents, such as ocean gyres and the Meridional Overturning Circulation, play a key role in the climate system through the redistribution of heat, freshwater, carbon, and nutrients. Some of these systems of ocean currents are on a large spatial scale and of global climate relevance. For example, the basin scale Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) plays an important role in the climate of northwest Europe (Bellomo et al., 2021; McCarthy et al., 2015). Other ocean circulation features are on a smaller spatial scale and still have an important climate relevance. For example, the regional-scale exchanges across the northwest European shelf are large (Huthnance et al., 2022) and enable a disproportionately large carbon transport that plays an important role in the ocean’s sequestration of anthropogenic carbon (Legge et al. 2020). How these systems will change as the climate changes is a key focus of research.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.14465/2025.reu05.cir
NORA Subject Terms:	Marine Sciences
Date made live:	24 Sep 2025 13:26 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/540278

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